THE 


HISTORY 


OF  THE 


of         am  and  Mm 


FROM  ITS  FOUNDATION,  1660,  TO  1874. 


J.  W.  RANDOLPH  &  ENGLISH, 

1318  MAIN  STREET,  KICHMOXD. 

1874. 


OATH  OF  VISITOR. 

I,  A.  B.,  do  solemnly  promise  and  swear,  that  I  will  truly  and 
faithfully  execute  the  duties  of  my  office,  as  a  visitor  of  WILLIAM 
AND  MARY  COLLEGE,  according  1p  the -best  p£:ifc}J  skill  and  judgment, 
•without  favour,  affection  or  partiality/'  So*  Ke'lp  me  God. 


OATH  OF  PRESIDENT  OR  PROFESSOR. 
I,  do  swear,  that  I  will  well  and  truly  execute 

the  duties  of  my  office  of  according  to  the  best 

of  my  ability.    So  help  me  God. 


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THE   CHARTER 

.   . 
OF  THE 

COLLEGE  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MARY, 

IltT 


WILLIAM  AND  MARY,  by  the  grace  of  God,  of  England,  Scot- 
land, France  and  Ireland,  King  and  Queen,  defenders  of  the  faithr 
&c.  To  all  to  whom  these  our  present  letters  shall  come,  greeting. 

Forasmuch  as  our  well-beloved  and  faithful  subjects,  constituting 
the  General  Assembly  of  our  Colony  of  Virginia,  have  had  it  ir* 
their  minds,  and  have  proposed  to  themselves,  to  the  end  that  the 
Church  of  Virginia  may  be  furnished  with  a  seminary  of  ministers 
of  the  gospel,  and  that  the  youth  may  be  piously  educated  in  good 
letters  and  manners,  and  that  the  Christian  faith  may  be  propagated 
amongst  the  Western  Indians,  to  the  glory  of  Almighty  God ;  ta 
make,  found  and  establish  a  certain  place  of  universal  study,  or 
perpetual  College  of  Divinity,  Philosophy,  Languages,  and  other 
good  Arts  and  Sciences,  consisting  of  one  President,  six  Masters  or 
Professors,  and  an  hundred  scholars,  more  or  less,  according  to  the 
ability  of  the  said  college,  and  the  statutes  of  the  same ;  to  be  made, 
increased,  diminished,  or  changed  there,  by  certain  trustees  nomi- 
nated and  elected  by  the  General  Assembly  aforesaid,  to  wit,  our 
faithful  and  well-beloved  Francis  Nicholson,  our  Lieutenant  Gover- 
nor in  our  Colonies  of  Virginia  and  Maryland;  Wm.  Cole,  Ralph 
Wormley,  William  Byrd  and  John  Lear,  Esquires;  James  Blair, 
John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace  and  Samuel  Gray,  clerks;  Thomas 
Milner,  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith,. 
Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Gary,  Henry  Hartwell,  William  Randolph? 
and  Matthew  Page,  gentlemen,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  or  of  the 
longer  livers  of  them,  on  the  south  side  of  a  certain  river,  commonly 
called  York  river,  or  elsewhere,  where  the  General  Assembly  itself 
shall  think  more  convenient,  within  our  Colony  of  Virginia,  to  be 
supported  and  maintained,  in  all  time  coming. 

I.  And  forasmuch  as  our  well-beloved  and  trusty  the  General 
Assembly  of  our  Colony  of  Virginia  aforesaid,  has  humbly  supplica- 
ted us,  by  our  well-beloved  in  Christ,  James  Blair,  Clerk,  their  agent 

M40867 


THE   CHARTER. 

constituted,;  that  we  would  be  pleased,  not  only  to  grant  our 
•royal  license  "to  :tlie  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  Ralph 

.  i'i!<\ .  William  Byrd  and  John  Lear,  Esquires;  James  Blair, 
John  FarnifoicF, -Stephen  Fouace  and  Samuel  Gray,  Clerks;  Thomas 
Milner,  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith, 
Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Gary,  Henry  Hartwell,  William  Randolph, 
and  Matthew  Page,  Gentlemen,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  or  of  the 
longer  livers  of  them,  to  make,  found,  erect  and  establish  the  said 
-college,  but  also  to  extend  our  royal  bounty  and  munificence 
towards  the  erection  and  foundation  of  the  said  college,  in  such  way 
and  manner  as  to  us  shall  seem  most  expedient:  We,  taking  the 
premises  seriously  into  our  consideration,  and  earnestly  desiring? 
that  as  far  as  in  us  lies,  true  philosophy,  and  other  good  and  liberal 
arts  and  sciences  may  be  promoted,  and  that  the  orthodox  Christian 
faith  may  be  propagated:  And  being  desirous,  that  forever  here- 
after, there  should  be  one  such  college,  or  place  of  universal  study, 
and  some  certain  and  undoubted  way  within  the  said  college,  for 
the  rule  and  government  of  the  same,  and  of  the  masters  or  pro- 
fessors, and  scholars,  and  all  others  inhabiting  and  residing  therein> 
and  that  the  said  college  should  subsist  and  remain  in  all  time 
•coming;  of  our  special  grace,  certain  knowledge,  and  mere  motion* 
HAVE  GRANTED  and  given  leave,  and  by  these  presenjts  do  grant 
and  give  leave,  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors,  as  much  as  in  us 
lies,  to  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  Ralph  Wormley, 
William  Byrd  and  John  Lear,  Esquires;  James  Blair,  John  Farni- 
fold,  Stephen  Fouace  and  Samuel  Gray,  Clerks ;  Thomas  Milne^ 
Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith,  Benjamin 
Harrison,  Miles  Gary,  Henry  Hartwell,  William  Randolph  and 
Matthew  Page,  Gentlemen;  That  they  or  the  major  part  of  them 
or  of  the  longest  livers  of  them,  for  promoting  the  studies  of  true 
philosophy,  languages,  and  other  good  arts  and  sciences,  and  for 
propagating  the  pure  gospel  of  Christ,  our  only  Mediator,  to  the 

ige  and  honor  of  Almighty  God,  may  have  power  to  erect,  found 
and  establish  a  certain  place  of  universal  study,  or  perpetual  Coll- 
for    Divinity,    Philosophy,    Languages   and    other    good    Arts    and 
Sciences,  consisting  of  one  Pr.  sident,  six  masters  or  professors,  and 
an  hundred  scholars,  nioiv  or  less,  graduates  and   non-Lrradr.ates,  as 
abovesaid,  according  to  the  statutes  and   orders  of  the    said   Coll. 
to  l»e  made,  appointed  ami    established    upon  the   place    by  the  said 

BCtt  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  or  the  major  part  of  them, 
upon  the  south  side  of  York  river,  on  the  land  late  of  Colonel 
Townsend,  deceased,  now  in  the  possession  of  John  Smith, 


THE   CHARTER.  5 

near  the  port  appointed  or  laid  out  for  York  county,  by  the  said 
General  Assembly,  within  our  said  colony  of  Virginia ;  or  if  by 
reason  of  unwholesomeness,  or  any  other  cause,  the  said  place  shall 
not  be  approved  of,  wheresoever  else  the  General  Assembly  of  our 
Colony  of  Virginia,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  shall  think  fit,  within 
the  bounds  of  the  aforesaid  colony,  to  continue  for  all  times  coming. 
II.  And  further,  of  our  special  grace,  certain  knowledge,  and  mere 
motion,  WE  HAVE  GRANTED,  and  given  leave,  and  by  these  presents 
do  grant,  and  give  leave,  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors,  to  the  said 
Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  that  they,  or  the  major  part 
of  them,  or  of  the  longer  livers  of  them,  may  be  enabled  to  take, 
hold  and  enjoy,  and  that  they  may  be  persons  apt  and  capable  in 
law,  for  taking,  holding  and  enjoying  all  Manors,  Lands,  Tenements, 
Rents,  Services,  Rectories,  Portions,  Annuities,  Pensions  and  Advow- 
sons  of  Churches,  with  all  other  Inheritances,  Franchises  and  Pos- 
sessions whatsoever,  as  well  spiritual  as  temporal,  to  the  value  of 
two  thousand  pounds  a  year;  and  all  other  goods,  chattels,  monies 
and  personal  estate  whatsoever,  of  the  gift  of  any  person  whatsoever, 
that  is  willing  to  bestow  them  for  this  use;  or  any  other  gifts,  grants, 
assignments,  legacies  or  appointments,  of  the  same,  or  any  of  them, 
or  of  any  other  goods  whatsoever:  But  with  this  express  intention, 
and  upon  the  special  trust  we  put  in  them  that  they  the  said 
Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  or 
of  the  longer  livers  of  them,  shall  take  and  hold  the  premises,  and 
shall  dispose  of  the  same,  and  of  the  rents,  revenues  or  profits 
thereof,  or  of  any  of  them  only  for  defraying  the  charges  that  shall 
be  laid  out  in  erecting  and  fitting  the  edifices  of  the  said  intended 
college,  and  furnishing  them  with  books,  and  other  utensils,  and  all 
other  charges  pertaining  to  the  said  college,  as  they,  or  the  major 
part  of  them,  shall  think  most  expedient,  until  the  said  college 
shall  be  actually  erected,  founded  and  established,  and  upon  this 
trust  and  intention,  that  so  soon  as  the  said  college  shall,  according  to 
our  royal  intent  be  erected  and  founded,  the  said  Francis  Nicholson, 
William  Cole,  &c.,  or  the  longer  livers  or  liver  of  them,  and  their  or 
his  heirs,  executors,  administrators  or  assigns,  shall  by  good  and 
sufficient  deeds  and  assurances  in  law  give,  grant  and  transfer  to  the 
said  President  and  masters,  or  professors,  or  their  successors,  the  said 
Lands,  Manors,  Tenements,  Rents,  Services,  Rectories,  Portions, 
Annuities,  Pensions  and  Advowsons  of  Churches,  with  all  other 
inheritances,  franchises,  possessions,  goods,  chattels  and  personal 
estate  aforesaid,  or  as  much  thereof  as  has  not  been  laid  out  and 


6  THE   CHARTER. 

bestowed  upon  the  building  the  said  college,  or  to  the  other  uses 
above  mentioned. 

III.  And  seeing  the  said  General  Assembly  of  our  Colony  of 
Virginia,  has  named,  elected  or  appointed,  the  said  James  Blair, 
Clerk,  as  a  fit  person  to  be  President  of  the  said  college ;  we  of  our 
special  grace,  certain   knowledge,  and   mere  motion,  do  approve, 
confirm  and  ratify  the  said  nomination  and  election,  and  do  by 
these  presents  make,  create  and  establish  the  said  James  Blair  first 
President  of  the  said  college,  during  his  natural  life. 

IV.  And  further,  we  grant  our  special  license  to  the  said  Francis 
Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  and  their  successors,  or  the  major 
part  of  them,  that  they  have  power  to  elect  and  nominate  other  apt, 
fit  and  able  persons,  into  the  places  of  the  masters  or  professors  of 
the  said  college ;  and  that,  after  the  death,  resignation  or  deprivation 
of  the  said  President,  or  Professors,  or  any  of  them,  the  said  Francis 
Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  and  their  successors,  or  the  major 
part  of  them,  shall  have  power  to  put  in,  and  substitute,  a  fit  per- 
son, or  persons,  from  time  to  time,  into  his  or  their  place,  or  places, 
according  to  the  orders  and  statutes  of  the  said  college,  to  be  made, 
enacted  and  established,  for  the  good  and  wholesome  government  of 
the  said  college,  and  of  all  that  bear  office,  or  reside  therein,  by  the 
8aid  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  or  their  successors,  or 
the  major  part  of  them. 

V.  And  further,  we  will,  and  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors,  by 
these  presents,  do  GRANT,  that  when  the  said  College  shall  be  so 
erected,  made,  founded  and  established,  it  shall  be  called  and  de- 
nominated forever  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  and 
that  the  President  and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  said  college, 
shall  be  a  body  politic  and  incorporate,  in  deed  and  name ;  and  that 
by  the  name  of  the  President  and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  Col- 
lege of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  they  shall  have  perpetual 
succession ;  and  that  the  said  President,  and  masters,  or  professors, 
shall  forever  be  called  and  denominated  the  President,  and  Masters, 
or  Professors,  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia:  And 
that  the  said  President,  and  masters,  or  professors,  and  their  suc- 
cessors, by  the  name  of  tho  President,  and  musters,  or  professors,  of 
the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  shall  IK-  persons  able, 

ible,  apt  and  perpetual  in  law,  to  take  and  hold  lordships,  manors, 
iiements,  rents,  reversions,  rectories,  portions,  pensions,  an- 
nuities, inheritances,  ;  "11S  :ill(l  services,  as  well  spiritual  as 

i.ural,  whatsoever,  and  all  manner  of  goods  and  chattels,  hoth  of 
our  gift,  and  our  heirs  and  successors,  and  of  the  gift  of  the  said 


THE   CHARTER.  7 

Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  Ralph  Wormley,  Wm.  Byrd  and 
John  Lear,  Esquires;  James  Blair,  John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace 
and  Samuel  Gray,  Clerks;  Thomas  Milner,  Christopher  Robinson, 
Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith,  Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Gary, 
Henry  Hartwell,  William  Randolph  and  Matthew  Page,  Gentlemen ; 
or  of  the  gift  of  any  other  person  whatsoever,  to  the  value  of  two 
thousand  pounds,  of  lawful  money  of  England,  yearly,  and  no  more, 
to  be  had  and  held  by  them  and  their  successors  for  ever. 

VI.  And  also,  that  the  said  President,  and  masters,  or  professors, 
by  and  under  the  name  of  the  President,  and  masters,  or  professors, 
of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  shall  have  power 
to  plead,  and  be  impleaded,  to  sue,  and  be  sued,  to  defend,  and  be 
defended,  to  answer,  and  be  answered,  in  all  and  every  cause,  com- 
plaint, and  action,  real,  personal  and  mixed,  of  what  kind  and  nature 
soever  they  be,  in  whatsoever  courts  and  places  of  Judicature  belong- 
ing to  us,  our  heirs  and  successors,  or  to  any  person  whatsoever, 
before  all  sorts  of  justices  and  judges,  ecclesiastical  and  temporal, 
in  whatsoever  kingdoms,  countries,  colonies,  dominions  or  planta- 
tions, belonging  to  us,  or  our  heirs;  and  to  do,  act,  and  receive,  these 
and  all  other  things,  in  the  same  manner,  as  our  other  liege  people, 
persons  able  and  capable  in  law,  within  our  said  Colony  of  Virginia, 
or  our  kingdom  of  England,  do,  or  may  act,  in  the  said  courts  and 
places  of  Judicature,  and  before  the  said  justices  and  judges. 

VII.  As  also,  that  the  said  President,  and  masters  or  professors, 
and  their  successors  shall  have  one  common  seal,  which  they  may 
make  use  of  in  any  whatsoever  cause  and  business  belonging  to  them 
and  their  successors ;  and  that  the  President,  and  masters  or  pro- 
fessors of  the  said  College,  and  their  successors,  shall  have  leave  to 
break,  change  and  renew,  their  said  seal,  from  time  to  time,  at  their 
pleasure,  as  they  shall  see  most  expedient. 

VIII.  And  further  of  our  more  especial  grace,  we  have  given  and 
.granted,  and  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  successors,  we  give  and  grant  our 
special  license,  as  far  as  in  us  lies,  to  the  said  Francis  Nicholson, 
William  Cole,  Ralph   Wormley,  William   Byrd   and    John   Lear, 
Esquires  ;     James     Blair,     John      Farnifold,     Stephen     Fouace, 
•Samuel    Gray,  '  Clerks ;    Thomas     Milner,     Christopher    Robin- 
eon,  Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith,  Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles 
Gary,  Henry  Hartwell,  William  Randolph  and  Matthew  Page,  gen- 
tlemen, that  they,  or  any  other  person  or  persons,  whatsoever,  after 
the  said  college  is  so  founded,  erected,  made,  created  and  established, 
may  have  power  to  give,  and  grant,  assign  and  bequeath,  all  manors, 
lands,  tenements,  rents,  services,  rectories,  portions,  annuities,  pen- 


8  THE   CHARTER. 

sions  and  advowsons  of  Churches,  and  all  manner  of  inheritance, 
franchises  and  possessions  whatsoever,  as  well  spiritual  as  temporal, 
to  the  value  of  two  thousand  pounds  a  year,  over  and  above  all 
burthens  and  reprisals,  to  the  President,  and  masters,  or  professors, 
of  the  said  College,  for  the  time  being,  and  their  successors,  to  be 
had,  held  and  enjoyed,  by  the  said  President,  and  masters,  or  pro- 
fessors, and  their  successors,  forever :  And  that  they,  the  said  Presi- 
dent and  masters,  or  professors  aforesaid,  may  take  and  hold,  to 
themselves,  and  their  successors,  forever,  as  is  aforesaid,  manors, 
lands,  tenements,  rents,  reversions,  services,  rectories,  portions,  pen- 
sions, annuities,  and  all  manner  of  inheritances,  and  pos- 
sessions whatsoever,  as  well  spiritual  as  temporal,  to  the  aforesaid 
value  of  two  thousand  pounds  a  year,  over  and  above  all  burthens, 
reprisals  and  reparations :  It  not  being  our  will,  that  the  said  Presi- 
dent, and  masters  or  professors  of  the  said  College,  for  the  time 
being,  or  their  successors,  shall  be  troubled,  disquieted,  molested,  or 
aggrieved  by  reason,  or  occasion  of  the  premises,  or  any  of  them,  by 
us,  our  heirs,  and  successors,  or  by  any  of  our  justices,  escheators, 
sheriffs,  or  other,  bailiffs,  or  ministers,  whatsoever,  belonging  to  us, 
our  heirs  and  successors. 

IX.  And  further,  we  will,  and  by  these  presents,  do  declare,  nom- 
inate, ordain  and  appoint,  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole, 
Ralph  Wormley,  William  Byrd  and  John  Lear,  Esquires;  James 
Blair,  John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace  and  Samuel  Gray,  Clerks; 
Thomas  Milner,  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough,  John 
Smith,  Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Gary,  Henry  Hartwell,  William 
Randolph  and  Matthew  Page,  gentlemen,  and  their  successors,  to  be 
the  true,  sole  and  undoubted  visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  col- 
lege for  ever:  And  we  give  and  grant  to  them,  or  the  major  part  of 
them,  by  these  our  letters  patents,  a  continual  succession,  to  be  con- 
tined  in  the  way  and  manner  hereafter  specified;  as  also  full  and 
absolute  liberty,  power  and  authority,  of  making,  enacting,  framing 
-tablishing  such  and  so  many  rules,  laws,  statutes,  orders  and 
injunctions,  for  the  good  and  wholesome  government  of  the  said  col- 
lege, as  to  them  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  and 
their  successors,  shall  from  time  to  time,  according  to  their  various 

,  seem  most  fit  and  expedient:   All  which 

•I   injunctions  so  to  1>c  made,  as  afore^iid.  we 

will  have  to  be  observed,  under  the  penalty  therein  contained:  Pro- 

vid«-d    notliwitlistandin.L',  th;it  the   said    rides,  laws,  statutes,  orders 

and  injunctions,  !><•  n"  w:l>'  contrary  to  our  prrn.irative  royal,  nor  to 

nd  statutes  df  our  kingdom  of  England  or  our  colony  of 


THE   CHARTER.  9 

Virginia,  aforesaid,  or  to  the  canons  and  constitutions  of  the  church 
of  England,  by  law  established. 

X.  And  further,  we  will  and  by  these  presents,  for  us,  our  heirs  and 
successors,  do  grant  and  confirm  to  the  said  visitors,  and  governors 
of  the  said  college,  and  their  successors,  that  they  and  their  success- 
ors, shall,  forever,  be  eighteen  men,  or  any  other  number  not  exceed- 
ing the  number  of  twenty,  in  the  whole,  to  be  elected  and  constituted. 
in  the  way  and  manner  hereinafter  specified ;  and  that  they  shall 
have  one  discreet  and  fit  person,  that  shall  be  elected  and  nominated, 
out  of  their  number,  in  the  manner  hereafter  mentioned,  that  shall 
be,  and  shall  be  called  Rector  of  the  said  college :  And  we  have  ap- 
pointed and  confirmed,  and  by  these  presents,  do  appoint  and  con- 
firm the  said  James  Blair,  to  be  the  present  rector  of  the  said  college, 
to  be  continued  in  the  said  office  for  one  year  next  ensuing  the 
foundation  of  the  said  college,  and  thereafter  till  some  other  of  the 
visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  college  shall  be  duly  elected,  pre- 
ferred and  sworn  into  the  said  office ;  and  that  from  time  to  time, 
and  in  all  time  coming,  after  the  said  year  is  expired,  or  after  the 
death  of  the  rector  within  the  year,  the  visitors  and  governors  of 
the  said  college,  or  the  greater  part  of  them,  or  of  their  successors, 
shall  have  power  to  elect  and  nominate  another  discreet  and  fit  per- 
son, from  amongst  themselves  to  be  rector  of  the  said  college;  and 
that  he  who  is  elected,  preferred  and  nominated,  as  abovesaid,  info 
the  place  of  rector  of  the  said  college,  shall  have  power  to  have, 
exercise  and  enjoy  the  said  office  of  rector  of  the  said  college,  for 
one  whole  year,  then  next  ensuing,  and  thereafter,  until  some  other 
rector  of  the  said  college  shall  be  duly  elected,  preferred  and  sworn 
into  the  said  office :  And  to  perpetuate  the  succession  of  the  said 
rector,  and  of  the  said  visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  college,  we 
will,  ordain  and  appoint,  that  as  often  as  any  one  or  more  of  the 
said  visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  college,  shall  die,  or  remove 
himself  and  family  out  of  our  said  colony,  into  any  other  country 
for  good  and  all,  that  then,  and  so  often,  the  rector  for  the  time 
being,  and  the  other  visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  college,  then 
surviving  and  remaining  within  the  colony,  or  the  major  part  of 
them,  shall  and  may  have  leave  to  elect,  nominate  and  choose  one 
or  more  of  the  principal  and  better  sort  of  the  inhabitants  of  our 
said  colony  of  Virginia,  into  the  place  or  places  of  visitor  and  gov- 
ernor, or  visitors  and  governors,  so  dead  or  removed,  to  fill  up  the 
aforesaid  number  of  visitors  and  governors,  f6r  the  said  college;  and 
that  he  or  they  so  elected  and  chosen,  shall  take  his  or  their  corpo- 
ral oath,  before  the  rector,  and  the  other  visitors  and  governors  of 


10  THE   CHARTER. 

the  said  college,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  well  and  faithfully  to 
execute  the  said  office ;  which  oath  the  said  rector,  and  two  or  more 
of  the  visitors,  shall  have  power  to  administer:  And  that  after  the 
taking  of  the  said  oath,  he  or  they  shall  be  of  the  number  of  the 
said  visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  college. 

XI.  And  further,  we  will,  and  by  these  presents,  for  us,  our  heirs 
and  successors,  do  grant  and  confirm,  to  the  said  President,  and 
masters,  or  professors  of  the  said  college,  and  their  successors,  that 
they  and  their  successors  shall  have  one  eminent  and  discreet  per- 
son, to  be  elected  and  nominated,  in  the  manner  hereafter  expressed, 
who  shall  be,  and  shall  be  called  chancellor  of  the  said  college : 
And  we  have  appointed  and  confirmed,  and  by  these  presents,  for 
us,  our  heirs,  and  successors,  do  appoint  and  confirm,  our  well- 
beloved  and  right  trusty  the  reverend  father  in  God,  Henry,  by 
divine  permission,  bishop  of  London,  to  be  the  first  chancellor  of 
the  said  college,  to  be  continued  in  the  said  office  for  seven  years 
next  ensuing,  and  thereafter,  until  some  other  chancellor  of  the  said 
college  shall  be  duly  elected  and  chosen  into  the  said  office :  And 
that  from  time  to  time,  and  in  all  time  coming,  after  these  seven 
years  are  expired,  or  after  the  death  of  the  said  bishop,  or  of  the 
chancellor,  for  the  time  being,  the  rector,  and  visitors,  and  governors 
of  the  said  College  for  the  time  being,  or  the  major  part  of  them, 
shall  and  may  have  power  to  elect,  choose  and  nominate,  some  other 
eminent  and  discreet  person,  from  time  to  time,  to  be  chancellor  of 
the  said  college ;  and  that  he  who  is  so  nominated  and  elected  to 
be  chancellor  of  the  said  college,  shall  and  may  have,  execute,  and 
enjoy,  the  said  office  of  chancellor  of  the  said  college,  for  the  space 
of  seven  years  then  next  ensuing,  and  thereafter  until  some  other 
chancellor  of  the  said  college  shall  be  duly  elected  and  constituted. 

XII.  Further,  we  will  by  these  presents  and  for  us,  our  heirs  and 
successors,  do  grant  and  confirm  to  the  said  president,  and  masters, 
or  professors,  of  the  said  college,  and  to  their  successors,  that  after 
the  said  college  is  erected,  founded,  and  established,  they  may  retain 
and  appoint  some  convenient  place,  or  council  chamber,  within  the 
said  college;  and  that  the  rector  and  other  visitors,  and  governors 
of  the  said  college,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  for  the  time  being,  as 
often  as   they  shall  think  good,  and  see  cause,  may  convorate  and 
hold  a  certain  court  of  convocation  within   the  said   chamber,  con- 

D^  of  the  said  rector,  and  visitors,  and  governors,  of  tin-  said 
collie,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  in  all  time  coining;  and  in  the 

1  convocation,  may  treat,  confer,  consult,  advise,  and  decree, 
concerning  statutes,  orders,  and  injunctions,  for  the  said  college. 


THE   CHARTER.  11 

XIII.  And  further,  we  will,  and  by  these  presents,  for  us,  our 
lieirs,  and  successors,  do  grant  and  confirm  to  the  said  President, 
and  masters,  or  professors  of  the  said  College,  and  their  successors, 
or  the  major  part  of  them,  that  from  time  to  time,  and  in  all  time 
coming,  the  said  rector  and  visitors,  or  governors  of  the  said  college, 
and  their  successors,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  shall  have  power 
and  authority,  yearly,  and  every  year,  on  the  first  Monday  which 
shall  happen  next  after  the  feast  of  the  annunciation  of  the  blessed 
Virgin  Mary,  to  elect  and  nominate,  and  that  they  shall  and  may 
elect  and  nominate  one  of  the  said  visitors  or  governors  of  the  said 
college,  to  be  rector  of  the  said  college,  for  one  whole  year  then  next 
ensuing :  And  that  he,  after  he  is  so  elected  and  chosen  into  the 
•said  office  of  rector  of  the  said  college,  before  he  be  admitted  to 
execute  the  said  office,  shall,  on  the  same  day  and  in  the  same  place, 
take  his  corporal  oath  before  the  last  rector,  and  visitors,  or  gover- 
nors of  the  said  college,  or  any  three  of  them,  well  and  faithfully 
to  execute  the  said  office  ;  and  that  after  so  taking  the  said  oath,  he 
shall  and  may  execute  the  said  office  of  rector  of  the  said  college, 
for  one  whole  year  then  next  ensuing :  And  also,  that  every  seventh 
year,  on  the  same  Monday,  next  after 'the  feast  of  the  annunciation 
of  the  blessed  Virgin  Mary,  aforesaid,  they  shall,  in  like  manner, 
have  power  and  authority  to  elect  and  nominate  another  chancellor 
of  the  said  college,  to  be  continued  for  seven  years  then  next  en- 
suing :  And  that  he  who  shall  be  elected,  chosen,  and  nominated, 
into  the  office  of  chancellor  of  the  said  college,  shall  and  may, 
immediately  after  such  election  and  nomination,  execute  the  office 
of  chancellor  of  the  said  college  for  seven  years  then  next  ensuing. 

XIV.  And  that  the  charge  and  expense  of  erecting,  building, 
founding  and  adorning,  the  said  college  at  present,  and  also  of  sup- 
porting and  maintaining  the  said  president  and  masters  or  professors, 
for  the  future,  may  be  sustained  and  defrayed,  of  our  more  ample 
and  bounteous  special  grace,  certain  knowledge,  and  mere  motion, 
we  have  given,  granted,  assigned,  and  made  over,  and  by  these  pre- 
sents, for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors,  do  give,  grant,  assign,  and 
make  over  to  the  said   Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  Ralph 
Wormley,  William  Byrd  and  John  Lear,  Esquires;   James  Blair, 
John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace  and  Samuel  Gray,  clerks;  Thomas 
Milner,  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith, 
Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Gary,  Henry  Hartwell,  William  Randolph 
and  Matthew  Page,  gentlemen,  and  their  executors  and  assigns  for- 
ever, the  whole  and  entire  sum  of  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and 
eighty-five  pounds,  fourteen  shillings  and  ten  pence,  of  good  and 


12  THE   CHARTER. 

lawful  money  of  England,  that  has  been  received  and  raised  out  of 
the  quit-rents  of  the  said  colony,  now  remaining  in  the  hands  of 
William  Byrd,  Esquire,  our  auditor,  or  in  whosesoever  other  hands 
the  same  now  is,  for  our  use,  within  the  said  colony :  And,  therefore, 
we  command  and  firmly  enjoin  the  said  auditor,  or  any  other  per- 
son with  whom  the  said  mone}r  is  deposited,  or  who  is  obliged  to 
pay  the  same,  imme'diately  upon  sight  of  these  our  letters  patents, 
to  pay,  or  cause  to  be  paid,  the  said  sum  of  one  thousand  nine  hun- 
dred and  eighty-five  pounds,  fourteen  shillings  and  ten  pence,  to  the 
said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  or  the  major  part  of  them, 
or  of  the  longer  livers  of  them,  or  to  their  attorney,  in  that  part 
lawfully  constituted,  with  any  other  warrant,  mandate,  or  precept 
to  be  obtained  or  expected  from  us,  to  be  laid  out  and  applied  about 
and  towards  the  building,  erecting  and  adorning,  the  said  college, 
and  to  no  other  use,  intent  or  purpose  whatever. 

XV.  Seeing  also,  by  a  certain  act  of  parliament,  made  the 
twenty-fifth  year  of  the  reign  of  our  royal  uncle,  Charles  the  Second, 
of  blessed  memory,  entitled,  An  act  for  the  encouragement  of  the 
Greenland  and  Eastland  trades,  and  for  better  securing  the  planta- 
tion trade,  it  was  enacted,  that  after  the  first  day  of  September,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  M.DC.LXXIII.,  if  any  ship,  which  by  law,  might 
trade  in  any  of  the  plantations,  should  come  to  any  of  them  to 
load,  and  take  on  board  tobacco,  or  any  other  of  the  commodities 
there  enumerated,  and  if  bond  were  not  first  given,  with  one 
sufficient  surety,  to  carry  the  said  tobacco  to  England,  Wales,  or  the 
town  of  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  and  to  no  other  place,  and  there  to 
unload  and  put  the  same  on  shore,  (the  dangers  of  the  sea  only 
excepted) ;  in  such  case  there  should  be  paid  to  our  said  uncle,  and 
his  heirs  and  successors,  one  penny  for  every  pound  of  tobacco  so 
loaded  and  put  on  board,  to  be  levied,  collected,  and  paid  in  such 
places,  and  to  such  officers,  and  collectors,  as  should  he  appointed 
in  the  respective  plantations,  to  collect,  levy,  and  receive  the  same, 
and  under  such  penalties,  both  to  the  officers  and  upon  the  iroods 
as  for  non-payment  of  his  majesty's  customs  in  Kiurland:  And  if 
it  should  happen,  that  any  person  or  persons  who  arc  to  pay  the 
shall  not  have  ready  money  to  satisfy  the  same,  that 
officers  who  are  appointed  to  collect  the  said  duties,  shall  in  lieu 
of  the  said  ready  in  noh  a  proportion  of  tobacco,  that 

o  shipped,  as  may  amount  to  the  value  thereof,  according 
to  t  of  the  said  commodity,   in  such    plantation 

epectively:  All  which  things  an- to   l.e  onl<  ivd.  and  <ii<p..-v.|.  and 

bO    he    levied,  hy  the  eoinmis- 


THE   CHARTER.  O 

jsioners  of  our  customs  in  England,  for  the  time  being,  under  the 
.authority  and  direction  of  the  lord  treasurer  of  England,  or  the 
commissioners  of  the  treasury,  for  the  time  being,  as  by  the  said 
act  of  parliament,  amongst  other  things  therein  contained,  reference 
being  thereto  had,  doth  more  fully  appear ;  we,  of  our  more  bounte- 
ous grace,  mere  motion,  and  certain  knowledge,  have  given  and 
granted,  and  for  us,  and  our  successors,  do  give,  and  grant,  to  the 
.said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  &c.,  and  the  .other  trustees 
above  mentioned,  and  their  heirs  for  ever,  the  said  revenue  of  one 
penny  for  every  pound  of  tobacco  in  Virginia,  or  Maryland,  in 
America,  or  either  of  them  that  shall  be  so  loaded,  and  put  on 
"board,  as  is  abovesaid ;  and  the  nett  produce  which  shall  accrue  in 
England,  or  elsewhere,  by  selling  there  the  tobacco  that  shall  be 
collected  in  our  colonies  of  Virginia,  and  Maryland,  in  lieu  of  the 
penny  that  ought  to  be  paid  for  every  pound  of  tobacco  so  loaded 
.and  put  on  board,  as  is  abovesaid :  Provided  always,  that  the  com- 
missioners of  our  customs  in  England,  for  the  time  being,  shall 
name  and  appoint  all  the  collectors  and  receivers  of  the  said  money 
and  tobacco,  and  their  inspectors  and  comptrollers,  from  time  to 
time,  as  they  have  hitherto  done:  And  that  the  salaries  of  the  said 
collectors,  receivers,  and  comptrollers,  shall  be  deducted  and  paid  out 
of  the  said  revenue ;  and  that  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William 
Cole,  Ralph  Wormley,  William  Byrd,  and  John  Lear,  Esquires ; 
James  Blair,  John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace,  and  Samuel  Gray, 
clerks ;  Thomas  Milner,  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough, 
John  Smith,  Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Gary,  Henry  Hartwell, 
William  Randolph,  and  Matthew  Page,  gentlemen,  and  their  suc- 
cessors, as  also  the  President,  and  masters,  or  professors  of  the  said 
College,  and  their  successors,  for  the  time  being,  shall  be  obliged  to 
receive  and  observe  all  such  rules,  orders,  and  instructions,  as  shall 
be  transmitted  to  them,  from  time  to  time,  by  the  said  commissioners 
of  our  customs  in  England,  for  the  time  being,  under  the  inspection 
and  direction  of  the  lord  treasurer,  or  the  commissioners  of  our 
treasury  in  England,  for  the  time  being,  for  the  better  and  more 
*exact  collecting  of  the  said  duty,  as  by  the  said  act  of  parliament, 
reference  being  thereto  had,  is  more  particularly  directed  and  ap- 
pointed :  but  with  this  express  intention,  and  upon  the  special  trust 
and  confidence  we  place  in  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William 
Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the  aforesaid  trustees,  that  they,  and  the  longest 
livers  of  them,  and  their  heirs,  shall  take,  hold,  and  possess  the  said 
revenue  of  a  penny  per  pound,  for  every  pound  of  tobacco  afore- 
said, with  all  its  profits,  advantages,  and  emoluments,  to  apply  and 


14  THE   CHARTER. 

lay  out  the  same,  for  building  and  adorning  the  edifices  and  other 
necessaries  for  the  said  college,  until  the  said  college  shall  be  actually 
erected,  founded,  and  established,  and  with  this  express  intention,. 
and  upon  the  special  trust  and  confidence,  that  so  soon  as  the  said 
college  shall  be  erected  and  founded,  according  to  our  royal  purpose, 
the  said  trustees,  and  the  longest  livers  or  liver  of  them,  and  his  or 
their  heirs,  or  assigns,  shall,  by  good  and  sufficient  deeds  and  as- 
surances in  law,  give,  grant,  and  transfer  to  the  President,  and 
masters,  or  professors,  of  the  said  College,  this  whole  revenue,  with 
all  its  profits,  issues,  and  emoluments  before  mentioned,  or  so  much 
thereof,  as  shall  not  have  been  expended  and  laid  out  for  the  afore- 
said uses,  to  be  held,  possessed,  and  enjoyed,  by  the  said  President, 
and  masters,  or  professors,  and  their  successors,  for  ever. 

XVI.  And  also,  of  our  special  grace,  mere  motion,  and  certain 
knowledge,  we  have  given  and  granted,  and  by  these  presents,  for 
us,  our  heirs,  and  successors  do  give  and  grant  to  Francis  Nicholson, 
William  Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the  said  trustees,  and  to  the  longest 
livers  or  liver  of  them,  and  to  his  or  their  heirs,  the  office  of 
surveyor-general  of  our  said  colony  of  Virginia,  if  the  said  office  be 
now  void,  or  whensoever  and  how  often  soever  it  shall  hereafter 
fall  void,  to  be  had,  held  and  executed,  with  all  its  issues,  fees, 
profits,  advantages,  conveniences,  liberties,  places,  privileges,  and 
pre-eminences  whatsoever,  belonging  to  the  said  office,  in  as  ample 
form  and  manner,  as  any  other  person,  who  has  heretofore  had, 
executed,  or  possessed  the  said  office,  ever  had  received  or  enjoyed, 
or  ought  to  have,  receive,  or  enjoy,  by  the  said  trustees,  and  their 
heirs ;  or  by  such  officers  and  substitutes,  as  they  or  the  major  part 
of  them,  or  of  the  longest  livers  of  them,  or  of  their  heirs,  shall 
from  time  to  time  nominate  and  appoint,  until  the  said  college  shall 
be  actually  founded  and  erected :  But  with  this  express  intention^ 
and  upon  this  special  trust  and  confidence,  which  we  place  in  the 
said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the  said  trus- 
tees, that  they  and  the  longest  livers  of  them,  and  their  heirs,  shall 
give  back  and  restore  to  the  President  and  masters,  or  professors,  of 
the  said  college,  for  the  time  being,  whatsoever  money  remains  irk 
their  hands,  that  has  risen  from  this  office,  during  their  administra- 
tion, not  yet  laid  out  upon  the  building  of  the  said  college,  and  the 
other  above-mentioned  uses,  so  soon  as  the  said  college  shall  l>e 
actually  erected  and  founded.  And  after  the  said  college  shall  be 
actuallyereeted  and  founded,  we  will,  that  the  said  office  of  stnvevor- 
general,  if  ft  be  then  void,  as  often  as  it  shall  be  void,  for  the  time 
to  come,  shall  bo  had,  held,  and  executed,  with  all  its  profits  and 


THE   CHARTER.  15 

appurtenances  above-mentioned,  by  the  said  President  and  masters, 
or  professors,  and  their  successors,  for  ever :  Provided  always  that 
the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  and  the  rest  of  the  above-mentioned 
trustees,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  or  of  the  longest  livers  of  them, 
and  the  President,  and  masters,  or  professors,  for  the  time  being, 
shall,  from  time  to  time,  nominate  and  substitute  such  and  so  many 
particular  surveyors  for  the  particular  counties  of  our  colony  of 
Virginia,  as  our  governor  in  chief,  and  the  council  of  our  said  colony 
of  Virginia,  for  the  time  being,  shall  think  fit  and  necessary. 

XVII.  And  also,  of  our  more  bounteous  special  grace,  mere  mo- 
tion, and  certain  knowledge,  we  have  given,  granted  and  confirmed, 
and  by  these  presents,  for  us,  and  our  heirs,  and  succesors,  do  give, 
grant,  and  confirm,  to  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  and 
the  rest  of  the  trustees  above-mentioned,  ten  thousand  acres  of  land, 
not  yet  legally  occupied  or  possessed  by  any  of  our  other  subjects, 
lying,  and  being,  on  the  South  side  of  the  Blackwater  Swamp,  and 
also  other  ten  thousand  acres  of  land,  not  legally  occupied  or  pos- 
sessed by  any  of  our  other  subjects,  lying  and  being  in  that  neck 
of  land,  commonly  called  Pamunkey  neck,  between  the  forks  or 
branches  of  York  river:  which  twenty  thousand  acres  of  land,  we 
will  have  to  be  laid  out  and  measured  in  the  places  above-mentioned, 
at  the  choice  of  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  and  the 
rest  of  the  fore-mentioned  trustees,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  or  of 
the  longest  livers  of  them,  to  be  had  and  held  by  the  said  Francis 
Nicholson,  William  Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the  above-mentioned  trus- 
tees, and  their  heirs  for  ever;  but  with  this  intention,  and  upon 
special  trust  and  confidence,  that  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  Wil- 
liam Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the  said  trustees,  or  the  major  part  of 
them,  or  of  the  longest  livers  of  them,  so  soon  as  the  said  college 
shall  be  actually  founded  and  established,  shall  give,  grant,  let,  and 
alienate  the  said  twenty  thousand  acres  of  land  to  the  said  Presi- 
dent and  masters,  or  professors  of  the  said  College,  to  be  had  and 
held  by  them,  and  their  successors,  for  ever,  by  fealty,  in  free  and 
common  soccage,  paying  to  us,  and  our  successors,  two  copies  of 
Latin  verses  yearly,  on  every  fifth  day  of  November,  at  the  house 
of  our  governor,  or  lieutenant  governor  of  Virginia,  for  the  time 
being,  for  ever,  in  full  discharge,  acquittance,  and  satisfaction  of  all 
quit-rents,  services,  customs,  dues,  and  burdens  whatsoever,  due,  or 
to  be  due,  to  us,  or  our  successors,  for  the  said  twenty  thousand 
acres  of  land,  by  the  laws  or  customs  of  England  or  Virginia. 

XVIII.  And  also,  of  our  special  grace,  certain  knowledge,  and 
mere  motion,  we  have  given,  and  granted,  and  by  these  presents,  for 


16  THE   CHARTER. 

us  and  our  successors,  do  give,  and  grant,  to  the  said  President,  and 
masters,  or  professors  of  the  said  college,  full  and  absolute  power, 
liberty,  and  authority,  to  nominate,  elect,  and  constitute  one  dis- 
creet and  able  person  of  their  own  number,  or  of  the  number  of 
the  said  visitors,  or  governors,  or  lastly,  of  the  better  sort  of  inhabi- 
tants of  our  colony  of  Virginia,  to  be  present  in  the  house  of  Bur- 
gesses, of  the  General  Assembly  of  our  colony  of  Virginia,  and 
there  to  act  and  consent  to  such  things,  as  by  the  common  advice  of 
our  said  colony  shall  (God  willing)  happen  to  be  enacted. 

XIX.  And  further,  it  is  our  pleasure,  that  such  further  confirma- 
tions and  ratifications  of  the  premises  shall  be  granted,  from  time 
to  time  by  us,  our  heirs  and  successors,  to  the  said  Francis  Nichol- 
son, and  the  rest  of  the  trustees  above-mentioned,  and  to  their  suc- 
cessors, or  to  the  Paesident,  and  masters,  or  professors  of  the  said 
college,  or  to  their  successors,  for  the  time  being,  upon  their  humble 
petition  under  the  great  seal  of  England,  or  otherwise,  as  the  attor- 
ney-general of  us,  our  heirs,  or  successors,  for  the  time  being,  shall 
think  fit  and  expedient. 

In  testimony  whereof,  we  have  caused  these 
our  letters  to  be  made  patent.  Witness 
ourselves,  at  Westminster,  the  eighth  day 
of  February,  in  the  fourth  year  of  our 
reign. 

By  writ  of  the  Privy  Seal, 

PIGOTT. 


THE   TRANSFER 

OF  THE 

COLLEGE  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MARY, 

IIsT 


TO  all  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come,  James  Blair,  of  the 
city  of  Williamsburg,  in  the  colony  of  Virginia,  and  Stephen 
Fouace,  of  Chelsea,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  clerks,  send  greet- 
ing: Whereas  their  late  Majesties,  King  William  and  Queen  Mary, 
of  blessed  memory,  being  religiously  inclined  to  promote  the  Stu- 
dies of  sacred  Theology,  Philosophy,  Languages,  and  other  good 
Arts  and  Sciences,  to  the  end  the  church  of  Virginia  might  be  sup- 
plied with  a  seminary  of  ministers  of  the  gospel,  and  the  youth  of 
that  country  be  piously  educated  in  good  manners  and  learning, 
and  the  orthodox  Christian  faith  might  be  propagated  among  the 
Western  Indians,  at  the  humble  suit  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  colony  aforesaid,  by  their  letters  patents  bearing  date  at  West- 
minster the  eighth  day  of  February,  in  the  fourth  year  of  their 
reign,  were  pleased  of  their  special  grace,  certain  knowledge,  and 
mere  motion  to  give  license  to  certain  trustees,  to  wit,  Francis 
Nicholson,  William  Cole,  Ralph  Wormley,  William  Byrd,  and  John, 
Lear,  Esqrs.;  James  Blair,  John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace,  and 
Samuel  Gray,  clerks ;  Thos.  Milner,  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles 
Scarborough,  John  Smith,  Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Gary,  Henry 
Hartwell,  William  Randolph,  and  Matthew  Page,  gentlemen;  that 
they,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  or  the  longest  livers  of  them, 
might  erect,  found,  and  establish  a  certain  general  school,  or 
perpetual  college,  of  sacred  Theology,  Philosophy,  Languages, 
and  other  good  Arts  and  Sciences,  consisting  of  one  President, 
six  masters  or  professors,  and  one  hundred  scholars,  more  or 
less,  graduates  and  non-graduates,  according  to  the  ordinances 
and  statutes  of  the  said  college,  by  the  said  trustees,  or  the 
major  part  of  them,  in  that  behalf  to  be  made  and  established, 
in  a  certain  place  upon  the  south  side  of  York  river,  near  York 
town,  in  the  county  of  York,  in  the  colony  aforesaid ;  or  if  that 

place,  for  the   unwholesomeness  of  the  air,  or  any  other  cause 
2 


18  THE  TRANSFER. 

should  not  be  agreeable,  in  any  other  place  within  the  said  colony 
which  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  said  colony  should  seem 
most  convenient.  And  did  further  grant,  that  the  said  trustees,  or 
the  major  part  of  them  receive,  hold,  and  enjoy  manors,  lands, 
tenements,  rents,  services,  rectories,  portions,  annuities,  pensions, 
and  advowsons  of  churches,  with  all  other  hereditaments,  franchises 
and  possessions  whatsoever,  as  well  spiritual  as  temporal,  to  the 
value  of  two  thousand  pounds  by  the  year,  and  all  goods,  chattels, 
money,  and  personal  estate  whatsoever,  of  the  gift  of  any  person 
whatsoever,  willing  to  give  the  same  to  this  use,  or  any  gifts,  grants, 
assignments,  legacies,  or  appointments  whatsoever  of  them,  or  any 
of  them,  or  any  other  well  disposed  persons:  But  to  the  express 
intent,  and  under  this  special  trust,  that  they,  the  said  trustees,  or 
the  major  part  of  them,  or  the  longest  livers  of  them,  should  take 
and  receive  the  premises,  and  dispose  the  same,  or  the  rents,  issues, 
and  profits  thereof,  only  for  sustaining  and  defraying  the  expenses 
in  erecting  and  fitting  the  buildings  of  and  for  the  said  intended 
college,  and  in  ordaining  the  same  with  books  and  other  convenient 
utensils,  and  other  expenses  to  the  said  college  pertaining,  as  to 
them,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  should  seem  expedient,  until  the 
said  college  should  be  actually  erected,  founded  and  established. 
And  under  this  trust,  and  to  the  intent,  that  as  soon  as  the  said 
college,  according  to  the  royal  design  aforesaid,  should  be  erected 
and  founded,  the  said  trustees,  or  the  longest  livers  or  the  longest 
liver  of  them,  and  his  or  their  heirs,  executors,  administrators  or 
assigns,  by  good  and  sufficient  writings  and  assurances  in  law,  should 
give,  grant,  and  transfer  to  the  President,  and  masters,  or  professors, 
and  their  successors,  the  same  manors,  lands,  tenements,  rents, 
services,  rectories,  portions,  annuities,  pensions,  and  advowsons  of 
churches,  with  all  other  hereditaments,  franchises,  possessions,  goods, 
chattels,  and  personal  estate  aforesaid,  or  so  much  thereof  as  should 
not  be  before  expended  and  laid  out  in  erecting  the  said  college,  or 
in  the  other  uses  aforesaid.  And  by  the  said  charter  did  make, 
create  and  establish  the  said  James  Blair  first  President  of  said 
college,  during  his  natural  life.  And  further,  did  grant  that  the 
said  Francis  Nicholson,  Win.  Cole,  Ralph  Wormlcy,  Win.  P>yrd, 
John  Lear,  James  l>!air,  John  Farniiold,  Stephen  Fouaee,and  Samuel 
y,  Thos.  Milner,  Christopher  Kol.inson,  Charles  Searhorough, 
John  Smith,  P.enjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Cary,  Henry  Ilartwell, 
William  Randolph,  and  Matthew  Pa-r,  and  thrir  sue.vssors,  or  tho 
major  part  of  them,  should  choose  ami  nominate  other  ahl<\  lit,  and 
capable  persons  into  the  plaees  of  the  masters  or  ]  rs  of  tho 


THE  TRANSFER.  19 

said  college ;  and  that  after  the  death,  or  resignation,  or  deprivation 
of  the  said  President,  or  professors,  or  any  of  them,  they  might 
from  time  to  time,  choose  and  substitute  into  his  or  their  places 
some  fit  person  or  persons,  according  to  the  ordinances  and  statutes 
of  the  same  college,  by  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole, 
Ralph  Wormley,  William   Byrd,  John   Lear,  James   Blair,  John 
Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace,  Samuel  Gray,  Thos.  Milner,  Christopher 
Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith,  Benj.  Harrison,  Miles 
Cary,  Henry  Hartwell,  William  Randolph,  and  Matthew  Page,  or 
their  successors,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  for  the  good  and  whole- 
some government  of  the  same  college,  and  of  all  persons  enjoying 
any  office  or  residing  therein,  to  be  made,  ordained  and  established. 
And  further,  did  grant  that  when  the  said  college  should  be  sc 
erected,  made,  founded  and  established,  the  same  should  be  for  ever 
called  and  named  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia ; 
and  that  the  said  President,  and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  said 
college,  should  be  one  body  corporate  and  politic,  and  by  the  name 
of  the  President  and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  college  of  William 
and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  should  have  perpetual  succession,  and  should 
for  ever  be  called  and  named  the  President  and  masters,  or  pro- 
fessors of  the  college  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia ;  and  by 
the  same  name  should  be  persons  fit,  capable,  able  and  perpetual  in 
law  to  purchase  and  receive  lordships,  manors,  lands,  tenements, 
reversions,  rectories,  portions,  pensions,  annuities,  hereditaments, 
possessions,  and  services  whatsoever,  as  well  spiritual  as  temporal, 
and  all  goods  and  chattels  whatsoever,  as  well  of  the  gift  of  their 
said  late  majesties,  their  heirs  and  successors,  as  of  the  gift  of  the 
said  trustees  or  any  other  persons  whatsoever,  to  the  value  of  two 
thousand  pounds  of  lawful  money  of  England,  by  the  year,  and  no 
more,  to  have  and  to  hold  to  them  and  their  successors  for  ever: 
And  did  further  grant  to  the  said  President  and  masters,  or  pro- 
fessors, and  their  successors,  divers  other  liberties,  privileges  and 
immunities,  in  the  said  letters  patents  particularly  set  forth  and 
expressed ;  and  further,  did  declare,  nominate,  ordain,  and  constitute 
the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  Ralph  Wormley,  William 
Byrd,  John  Lear,  James  Blair,  John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace,  and 
Samuel  Gray,  Thomas  Milner.  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scar- 
borough, John  Smith,  Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Cary,  Henry  Hart- 
well,  William  Randolph,  and  Matthew  Page,  and  their  successors, 
to  be  for  ever  the  true  and  undoubted  visitors  and  governors  of  the 
said  College ;  and  did  give  them,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  power, 
from  time  to  time,  to  make  statutes  and  ordinances  for  the  good 


20  THE  TRANSFER. 

government  of  the  said  College :  And  did  grant  unto  them  perpetual' 
succession,  and  that  they  and  their  successors  should  for  ever  be 
eighteen  persons,  or  any  other  number  not  exceeding  twenty  ;  and 
that  one  discreet  and  fit  person,  out  of  their  number  should  be- 
rector  of  the  said  College,  to  be  elected  and  appointed  as  in  the  said 
letters  patents  is  expressed ;  and  did  appoint  the  said  James  Blair 
first  rector  of  the  said  College,  to  continue  in  that  office  for  one  year 
next  after  the  founding  of  the  said  College.  And  for  perpetuating 
the  succession  of  the  said  visitors  and  governors,  did  grant  that  as- 
often  as  any  of  the  said  visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  College 
should  die,  or  remove  him  or  themselves,  or  their  families,  out  of 
the  said  colony,  and  go  into  foreign  parts  with  intent  not  to  return, 
that  then  it  should  be  lawful  for  the  survivors,  or  the  remaining,  or 
the  greater  part  of  them,  to  choose,  nominate,  and  appoint  one  other 
or  more  of  the  principal  and  better  inhabitants  of  the  said  colony 
of  Virginia,  into  the  place  or  places  of  such  visitor  or  governor,  or 
visitors  and  governors,  so  dying  or  removing.  And  to  the  end  tho 
charges  and  expenses  for  erecting,  building,  founding,  and  adorning 
the  College  aforesaid  for  the  present,  and  also  of  keeping  and  main- 
taining the  President  and  masters,  or  professors,  in  time  to  comer 
might  be  sustained  and  supported,  their  said  late  majesties,  of  their 
further  special  grace,  certain  knowledge,  and  mere  motion,  by  the 
said  letters  patents,  for  themselves,  their  heirs  and  successors,  did. 
give,  grant,  assign,  and  transfer  unto  the  said  trustees,  their  execu- 
tors, and  assigns,  for  ever,  that  full  and  entire  sum  of  one  thousand 
nine  hundred  and  eighty-five  pounds,  fourteen  shillings  and  ten 
pence,  of  good  and  lawful  money  of  England,  of  the  monies  received 
and  levied  for  the  quit-rents  in  the  said  colony,  remaining  in  the 
hands  of  William  Byrd,  Esq.,  their  said  majesties'  auditor,  or  of  any 
other  person  in  the  said  colony  for  their  use,  to  be  expended  o.nd 
applied  in,  about,  and  to  the  building,  erecting,  and  adorning  the 
College  aforesaid,  and  to  no  other  use,  intents,  or  purposes  what- 
soever. And  for  as  much  as  by  one  act  of  parliament,  made  in  the 
twenty-fifth  year  of  the  reign  of  the  late  king  Charles  the  second. 
of  blessed  memory,  entitled,  an  act  for  the  encouragement  of  the 
nlaml  and  Kastlaml  trades,  and  for  the  better  ^eeiirin^  the 
plantation  trade,  it  was  enacted,  that  after  the  first  day  of  Septem 
which  should  he  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hunUi 
and  sev«  nty-three,  if  any  ship,  which  by  the  law  of  the  land  n,; 
trade  in  any  of  the  plantations,  should  #o  to  any  of  them  <o  tr. 
or  take  on  board  any  tobacco  or  other  commodities  therein  emu. 
rated,  and  should  not  first  give  bond  with  one  suflieiriit  surety,  tv> 


THE  TRANSFER. 


21 


transport  the  same  tobacco  into  England,  Wales,  or  the  town  of 
Berwick  upon  Tweed,  and  to  no  other  place,  and  there  to  unload 

--and  put  the  same  on  shore,  the  dangers  of  the  sea  only  excepted; 
in  such  case  there  should  be  paid  to  the  said  king,  his  heirs  and 
successors,  for  every  pound  of  tobacco  unloaded  and  put  on  board, 
one  penny,  to  be  levied,  collected,  and  paid  in  such  place,  and  to 
such  collectors  or  other  officers  in  the  respective  plantations,  as 
should  be  appointed  to  collect,  levy,  and  receive  the  same ;  and 
under  such  penalties,  as  well  on  the  officers  as  goods,  to  be  inflicted 

.-as  for  the  non-payment  or  defraying  the  king's  taxes  or  customs  in 
England  ought  to  be  inflicted :  And  if  it  should  happen  that  any 
person  or  persons  who  ought  to  pay  the  said  duties  should  not  have 
ready  money  wherewith  to  satisfy  the  same,  that  the  officers  ap- 
pointed to  collect  the  same  might  accept,  instead  of  ready  money, 
such  proportion  of  tobacco,  to  be  laden  as  aforesaid,  as  might  amount 
to  the  value  thereof,  according  to  the  current  rate  of  that  commodity 
in  such  plantation  respectively :  All  which  matters  are  to  be  ordered 
and  managed,  and  the  respective  duties  to  be  caused  to  be  levied  by 
the  commissioners  of  the  customs  in  England,  for  the  time  being, 
under  the  authority  and  direction  of  the  lord  treasurer  of  England, 
or  the  commissioners  of  the  treasury  for  the  time  being,  as  by  the 
same  act  of  parliament,  among  other  things  therein  contained,  re- 
lation being  thereunto  had,  more  fully  appears :  Their  said  late 
majesties,  for  themselves,  and  their  successors,  did  give  and  grant 
to  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the 
trustees  aforesaid  and  their  heirs,  for  ever,  the  said  revenue  of  one 
penny  for  every  pound  of  tobacco  to  be  shipped  as  aforesaid,  out  of 
Virginia  or  Maryland,  or  either  of  them,  and  the  nett  produce  which 

;  should,  accrue  in  England,  or  elsewhere,  by  the  sale  of  tobacco  to 
be  collected  in  the  colonies  of  Virginia  or  Maryland,  in  lieu  of  the 
penny  aforesaid  to  be  paid  for  every  pound  of  tobacco  to  be  shipped. 
But  to  the  express  intent,  and  under  this  special  trust  and  confidence, 
that  the  said  trustees,  and  the  longest  livers  of  them,  and  their  heirs, 
should  hold,  take,  and  possess  the  said  revenue  of  one  penny  for 
every  pound  of  tobacco  aforesaid,  with  all  profits,  commodities,  and 
emoluments  of  the  same ;  and  the  same  should  apply,  and  employ, 
to  the  erecting  and  adorning  of  the  buildings  and  other  things  ne- 
cessary for  the  said  College,  until  the  said  College  should  be  actually 
erected,  founded,  and  established ;  and  to  the  express  intent,  and 
under  this  special  trust  and  confidence,  that  as  soon  as  the  said 
College,  according  to  the  royal  design  aforesaid,  should  be  erected 
and  founded,  the  said  trustees,  and  the  longest  livers  or  liver  of 


22  THE  TRANSFER. 

them,  and  his  or  their  heirs  or  assigns,  by  good  and  sufficient  as- 
surances in  law,  should  give,  grant,  and  transfer  to  the  said  President 
and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  College  aforesaid,  the  entire  re- 
venue aforesaid,  with  all  profits,  issues  and  emoluments  of  the  same, 
or  so  much  thereof  as  should  not  be  expended  and  laid  out  in  the  uses 
aforesaid ;  to  be  held,  possessed,  and  enjoyed  by  the  said  President  and 
masters,  or  professors,  and  their  successors,  for  ever.     And  further,  did 
give  and  grant  to  the  said  Francis   Nicholson,  William  Cole,  and 
the  rest  of  the  trustees  aforesaid,  and  the  longest  livers  or  liver  of 
them,  and  to  his  or  their  heirs,  the  office  of  surveyor-general  of  the 
colony  of  Virginia  aforesaid,  if  the  said  office  should  then  be  va- 
cant: To  be  had,  held,  and  exercised  with  all  perquisites,  fees, 
allowances,  profits,  commodities,  advantages,  liberties,  places  and 
pre-eminences  to  the  said  office  belonging  or  appertaining,  in  as 
ample  manner  and  form  as  any  other  person  having,  exercising,  or 
enjoying  the  said  office  ever  had,  received,  or  enjoyed,  or  might 
have  had,  received  or  enjoyed  the  same,  by  the  said  trustees,  and 
their  heirs,  or  by  such  officers  and  deputies  as  they,  or  the  major 
part  of  them,  or  of  the  longest  livers  of  them,  and  their  heirs,  should, 
from  time  to  time,  nominate  and  appoint,  until  the  said  College 
should  be  actually  founded  and  erected.     But  under  this  express 
intent,  and  special  trust  and  confidence,  that  the  said  Francis  Nich- 
olson, William  Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the  trustees  aforesaid,  and  the 
longest  livers  of  them,  and  their  heirs,  as  soon  as  the  said  college 
should  be  actually  erected  and  founded,  should  render  unto  the 
President  and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  said  College,  for  the 
time  being,  whatsoever  should  remain  of  the  monies  arising  from  that 
office  during  their  administration,  which  should  not  be  before  laid 
out  in  erecting  the  said  College,  and  the  other  uses  aforesaid.     And 
of  their  further  grace  did  give,  grant,  and  confirm,  for  themselves, 
their  heirs  and  successors,  to  the  said  Francis  Nicholson,  William 
Cole,  and  the  rest  of  the  trustees  aforesaid,  ten  thousand  acres  of 
land,  not  before  legally  occupied  and  possessed  by  any  other  of 
their  subjects,  lying  and  being  on  the  south  side  of  Black-water 
swamp:  and  also  other  ten  thousand  acres  of  land,  not  before  It-ally 
occupied   or  possessed   by  any  other  of  their  subjects,   lyin^  and 
beiii'j;  in  that  isthmus  commonly  called   I'amnnkey  neck,  between 
the  forks  or  branches  of  York  river;  which   twenty  thousand  acres 
of  land  their  said  late  majesties  did  direct  to  be  bounded  and  mea- 
sured in  the  plae.  :id,  whensoever  it  should  please  the  said 
fntolM,  or  the  major  par!  of  them,  or  of  the  loiiLr«'-t  livers  of  them  : 
To  be  held  to  them  the  said   Francis  Nicholson,  William  Cole,  and 


THE  TRANSFER.  23 

the  rest  of  the  trustees  aforesaid,  and  their  heirs,  for  ever.  Never- 
theless to  this  intent,  and  upon  this  special  trust  and  confidence, 
that  the  said  trustees,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  or  of  the  longest 
livers  of  them,  when  the  said  College  should  be  founded  and  es- 
tablished, should  give,  grant,  bargain,  and  alien  the  twenty  thousand 
acres  aforesaid  to  the  President  and  masters,  or  professors  of  the 
College  aforesaid;  to  be  held  to  them,  and 'their  successors,  for  ever, 
by  fealty,  in  free  and  common  soccage,  as  by  the  said  letters  patents,, 
among  other  things  therein  contained,  relation  being  thereunto  had, 
more  fully  and  at  large  doth  and  may  appear.  And  whereas  divers 
well  disposed  charitable  persons,  for  encouraging  and  furthering  so 
good  a  work,  did  give  unto  the  said  trustees  sundry  sums  of  money, 
amounting  to  two  thousand  pounds  sterling,  and  upwards:  and  the 
General  Assembly  of  the  colony  aforesaid,  by  one  act  of  Assembly 
made  in  the  fourth  year  of  the  reign  of  the  late  Queen  Anne,  en- 
titled, An  act  for  laying  an  imposition  upon  skins  and  furs,  for  the 
better  support  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  did  lay  certain 
duties  upon  raw  hides  and  tanned  hides,  and  upon  all  deer  skins 
and  furs  that  should  be  exported  and  carried  out  of  the  said  colony, 
either  by  land  or  water,  to  be  paid  to  her  said  majesty,  her  heirs 
and  successors,  for  and  towards  the  better  support  and  maintenance 
of  the  said  College,  as  in  the  said  act  is  more  fully  expressed.  And 
her  said  late  majesty,  Queen  Anne,  in  the  year  of  her 

reign,  was  graciously  pleased  to  give  unto  the  said  trustees  the  sum 
of  one  thousand  pounds  sterling,  out  of  the  money  arising  from  the 
quit-rents  of  the  said  colony.  And  whereas  the  said  trustees  since 
the  granting  the  said  letters  patents,  did  purchase  one  certain  parcel 
of  land,  containing  three  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  lying  and  being 
in  the  parish  of  Bruton,  in  the  county  of  James  City,  near  the  City 
of  Williamsburg,  for  the  consideration  of  one  hundred  and  seventy 
pounds,  which  was  sold  and  conveyed  to  the  said  trustees  by 
Thomas  Ballard  by  his  certain  indenture  bearing  date  the  twentieth 
day  of  December,  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  ninety-three :  and 
have  expended  divers  considerable  sums  of  money  in  maintaining 
and  supporting  a  grammar  school,  for  the  immediate  education  of 
the  youth  of  the  said  colony,  in  the  Latin  and  Greek  tongues,  until 
the  said  College  should  be  actually  founded  as  aforesaid,  and  the 
number  of  masters,  or  professors,  in  the  said  letters  patents  men- 
tioned, made  complete :  And  did  also  cause  to  be  erected,  on  part 
of  the  said  purchased  lands,  in  the  parish  of  Bruton  aforesaid,  by 
the  appointment  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  said  colony,  a 
convenient  building  of  brick  for  the  said  College,  which  some  time 


24  THE  TRANSFER. 

in  the  month  of  October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  five,  happened  to  be  destroyed  by  fire ;  but  by 
the  care  of  the  surviving  trustees  hath  been  since  rebuilt  there,  more 
conveniently  than  before,  and  is  now  fitted  with  a  hall,  and  conve- 
nient apartments  for  the  schools,  and  for  the  lodging  of  the  Presi- 
dent, masters,  and  scholars,  and  hath  in  it  a  convenient  chamber 
set  apart  for  a  Library,  besides  all  other  offices  necessary  for  the  said 
College,  and  is  adorned  with  a  handsome  garden;  whereby  the 
several  sums  of  money,  so  as  aforesaid  contributed,  for  the  carrying 
on  of  this  work,  and  the  rents,  issues  and  profits,  and  emoluments, 
of  the  said  twenty  thousand  acres  of  land,  and  the  other  revenues 
aforesaid,  have  hitherto  been  in  a  great  measure  exhausted,  and  the 
founding  of  the  said  College  delayed  and  hindered.  And  whereas 
the  said  surviving  trustees,  pursuant  to  the  trust  in  them  reposed, 
have  established  in  the  said  Coilege  one  school  of  sacred  theology, 
and  one  other  school  of  philosophy,  besides  the  grammar  school 
aforesaid,  and  have  appointed  certain  masters  or  professors  in  each 
of  the  said  schools;  that  is  to  say,  two  masters  in  the  theology 
school,  two  other  masters  in  the  philosophy  school,  and  one  in  the 
grammar  school ;  and  have  chosen  and  appointed  Earth olomevr 
Yates,  late  of  the  parish  of  Christ  Church,  in  the  county  of  Middle- 
sex, in  the  colony  of  Virginia,  clerk,  and  Francis  Fontain,  late  of 
the  parish  of  York  Hampton,  in  the  county  of  York,  in  the  colony 
aforesaid,  clerk,  masters  or  professors  of  theology ;  and  Alexander 
Irwin,  of  the  city  of  Williamsburg  aforesaid,  gentleman,  and  Wil- 
liam Dawson,  late  of  Queen  College,  in  Oxford,  clerk,  masters  or 
professors  of  philosophy;  and  Joshua  Fry,  of  Williamsburg  afore- 
said, gentleman,  master  of  the  grammar  school  in  the  said  College. 
And  whereas  the  honorable  Robert  Boyle,  Esq.,  deceased,  being  in 
his  life-time  possessed  of  a  personal  estate  to  the  value  of  ten  thou- 
sand pounds,  and  being  minded  to  leave  the  greatest  part  thereof 
to  be  employed  for  charitable  uses,  about  the  eighteenth  of  July,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  ninety-one, 
made  his  last  will  and  testament  in  writing,  and  did  thereby,  and 
by  one  or  more  codicils,  direct  that  the  residue  of  his  personal  es- 
tate, after  debts  and  legacies  paid,  should  be  disposed  of  by  his 
executors  for  such  charitable  and  pious  uses  as  they  in  their  discre- 
tion should  think  fit;  but  recommended  unto  them  tin-  laying  out 
tin;  greatest  part  thereof  for  advancement  of  the  Christian  religion; 
and  made  the  right  honorable  Richard,  earl  of  llnrlinglon,  Sir 
II< nry  Ashurst,  knight  and  baronet,  and  John  Marr,  gentleman, 
executors  of  the  .said  will,  and  soon  after  died:  And  tin- said  ex- 


THE  TRAS^FER.  25 

<jcutors  proved  his  will,  and  possessed  themselves  of  his  personal 
estate,  and  had  agreed  to  lay  out  five  thousand  four  hundred 
pounds,  being  looked  upon,  to  be  the  greater  half,  in  the  purchase 
of  lands,  and  to  apply  the  yearly  rent  thereof  towards  the  propa- 
gating the  Christian  religion  amongst  infidels;  and  had  agreed  with 
Sir  Samuel  Gerrard  for  the  purchase  of  the  manor  of  Brafferton,  in 
the  county  of  York,  for  the  sum  of  five  thousand  four  hundred 
pounds,  and  upon  payment  thereof,  the  said  Sir  Samuel  Gerrard 
was  to  convey  the  said  estate  to  them  and  their  heirs ;  and  for  the 
settling  the  said  charity  had  agreed  on  the  methods  following,  that 
out  of  the  said  manor  the  said  executors  should  grant  a  rent  charge 
in  perpetuity  of  ninety  pounds  per  annum  to  the  company,  for  pro- 
pagating the  gospel  in  New  England,  and  the  parts  adjacent,  in 
America,  and  their  successors,  to  be  paid  at  Guildhall  in  London, 
yearly  at  Michaelmas  and  Lady-day,  by  equal  portions,  clear  of 
taxes;  and  that  the  said  company  should  apply  forty-five  pounds 
per  annum,  one  moiety  thereof,  for  the  salary  of  two  ministers  to 
instruct  the  natives,  in  or  near  his  majesty's  colonies  in  New  Eng- 
land, in  the  Christian  religion ;  and  the  other  forty-five  pounds  per 
-annum,  residue  of  the  said  rent  charge,  the  said  company,  and  their 
successors  were  to  transmit  unto  the  President  and  fellows  of  Har- 
vard College,  in  Cambridge,  in  New  England,  and  their  successors, 
to  be  by  them  employed  and  bestowed  for  the  salary  of  two  other 
ministers  to  teach  the  said  natives,  in  or  near  the  College  there,  the 
Christian  religion;  and  that  the  said  manor,  subject  to  the  said 
ninety  pounds  per  annum,  should  be  conveyed  to  the  mayor,  com- 
monalty, and  citizens  of  London,  and  their  successors,  upon  trust, 
that  the  rents  and  profits  thereof,  over  and  above  the  said  ninety 
pounds  per  annum,  receiver's  salary,  and  other  incident  charges  de- 
ducted, should  be  laid  out  for  the  advancement  of  the  Christian  re- 
ligion in  Virginia,  in  such  manner  and  subject  to  such  methods  and 
rules  as  the  said  earl  of  Burlington,  and  the  Bishop  of  London,  for 
the  time  being,  should,  under  their  hands  and  seals,  appoint,  so  as 
.such  appointment  were  made  on  Lady-day,  one  thousand  six  hun- 
dred and  ninety-seven,  and  confirmed  by  the  decree  of  the  high 
court  of  chancery.  But  there  being  delays  in  the  said  purchase, 
some  time  in  Trinity  term,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
six  hundred  and  ninety- five,  sir  Thomas  Trevor,  knight,  attorney- 
general  q£  his  then  majesty,  and  dame  Elizabeth  Gerrard,  and 
Thomas  Owen,  executors  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  the  said 
sir  Samuel  Gerrard,  late  deceased,  exhibited  their  bill  in  the  high 
court  of  chancery  against  the  right  honorable  Richard,  earl  of  Bur- 


26  THE  TRANSFER. 

lington,  sir  Henry  Ashurst,  knight  and  Baronet,  and  John  Marr, 
gentleman,  executors  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  the  honora- 
ble Robert  Boyle,  Esq.,  deceased:  And  the  said  dame  Elizabeth 
Gerrard,  and  Thomas  Owen,  being  desirous  to  go  on  with  the  said 
purchase,  to  that  end  prayed  the  said  defendants  might  be  decreed 
to  pay  the  said  five  thousand  four  hundred  purchase  money,  on 
conveyance  of  a  good  estate  in  fee  simple.  And  in  as  much  as  it 
was  the  proper  work  of  the  said  court  to  see  charitable  uses  pur- 
sued, the  said  attorney-general  prayed  that  the  defendants  might 
go  on  with  the  said  purchase,  and  be  decreed  to  settle  the 
rents  thereof  on  such  pious  uses  as  were  agreed  on,  in  case  the 
same  were  according  to  the  testator's  mind,  or  otherwise,  as  the 
court  should  direct:  To  which  bill  the  said  defendants  put  in 
their  answer,  whereupon,  and  upon  the  debate  of  the  matters, 
and  hearing  what  was  alleged  on  either  side,  the  court  thought 
fit,  upon  the  first  day  of  August,  one  thousand  six  hundred  and 
ninety-five,  to  decree  that  it  should  be  referred  to  one  of  the  mas- 
ters of  the  said  court  to  take  an  account  of  the  personal  estate  of 
the  said  testator,  Robert  Boyle,  which  had  come  to  the  hands  of  the 
defendants,  and  to  examine  and  certify  whether  the  five  thousand 
four  hundred  pounds,  agreed  to  be  laid  out  in  the  said  purchase, 
were  the  major  part  of  the  said  testator's  personal  estate,  and  whether 
the  value  of  the  said  manor  and  lands  were  equivalent  to  the  pur- 
chase money  agreed  to  be  paid  for  the  same :  upon  whose  report  it 
was,  upon  the  eighth  day  of  August,  in  the  seventh  year  of  the 
reign  of  the  late  king  William  the  third,  ordered  and  decreed,  that 
the  defendants  should  proceed  on  the  said  purchase,  for  the  said 
sum  of  five  thousand  four  hundred  pounds ;  and  that  the  rules  and 
methods,  touching  the  disposition  of  the  said  charity,  before  mcn- 
tionod,  should  1m  and  were  thereby  ratified  and  confirmed,  with 
this  further  addition  only,  that  the  yearly  account  of  the  said  ninety 
pounds  per  annum,  after  the  death  of  the  said  earl  of  Burlington 
ami  sir  Henry  Ashurst,  should  be  sent  to  the  President  of  Trinity 
College,  in  Oxford,  for  the  time  l)eiii;_r.  as  well  as  to  the  several  heirs 
of  the  earl  of  Burlington  and  sir  Henry  Ashurst,  of  which  Col: 
the  said  Koherf  IJoyle  was  a  member.  And  it  was  further  decreed, 
that  after  the  said  purchase  made,  (he  said  defendants  should  irrant 
the  said  rent  charire  of  ninety  pounds  per  annum,  to  the  said  com- 
pany, for  propa'.Mtin:/  the  gospel  in  NY\v  Kn^land,  and  parts  adjacent, 
In  America,  and  their  successors,  fur  the  purposes  aforcsai'l;  and 
afterwards  should  ennvey  the  sai-1  manor  and  purchased  pivmi 
fiocl.  '.'1,  unto  the  mayor,  commonalty,  and  citi/ens 


THE  TRANSFER.  27 

of  London,  and  their  successors,  subject  to  the  trusts  and  purposes 
in  the  aforesaid  rules  and  agreements  made  concerning  the  same. 
In  pursuance  of  which  decree,  the  said  earl  of  Burlington,  and 
Henry,  lord  bishop  of  London,  agreed  on,  and  appointed  certain 
rules  and  methods  for  the  settlement  of  the  said  charity  in  Virginia,, 
under  their  hands  and  seals,  bearing  date  the  twenty-first  day  of 
December,  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  ninety-seven,  to  the  pur- 
port and  effect  herein  after  mentioned,  that  is  to  say :  first,  that  all 
the  yearly  rents  and  profits  of  the  said  manor  of  Brafferton,  as  well 
those  incurred  due  since  the  purchase  thereof,  as  which  should 
thereafter  grow  due,  after  the  deduction  thereout  of  ninety  pounds. 
a  year  to  the  College  for  propagating  the  gospel  in  New-England,, 
and  other  necessary  or  incident  charges,  should  be  by  the  present 
or  future  receivers  of  the  rents  thereof  paid  into  the  hands  of 
Micajah  Perry  of  London,  merchant,  agent  in  London  for  the  Presi- 
dent and  masters  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,, 
and  to  all  future  agent  and  agents  in  England,  for  the  said  College,, 
for  the  time  being,  for  the  purposes  thereafter  mentioned,  and  such 
agent  or  agents  receipts  and  acquittances,  should  be  sufficient  dis- 
charges to  such  receiver  or  receivers  for  what  should  be  so  paid.. 
Secondly,  all  sum  and  sums  of  money  already  or  that  should  there- 
after be  received  out  of  the  said  manor,  subject  to  the  deductions- 
aforesaid,  should  be  thereafter  remitted  to  the  said  President  and 
masters  for  the  time  being.  Thirdly,  that  the  said  President  and 
masters,  and  his  and  their  successors,  should  thereout  expend  so- 
much  as  should  be  necessary  towards  fitting  and  furnishing  lodgings, 
and  rooms  for  such  Indian  children  as  should  be  thereafter  brought 
into  the  said  College.  Fourthly,  the  said  President  and  masters,, 
and  his  or  their  successors,  should  keep  at  the  said  College  so  many 
Indian  children  in  sickness  and  health,  in  meat,  drink,  washing,, 
lodging,  clothes,  medicines,  books  and  education,  from  the  first 
beginning  of  letters  till  they  should  be  ready  to  receive  orders,  and 
be  thought  sufficient  to  be  sent  abroad  to  preach  and  convert  the 
Indians,  at  the  rate  of  fourteen  pounds  per  annum  for  every  such 
child,  as  the  yearly  income  of  the  premises,  subject  to  the  deduc- 
tion aforesaid  should  amount  to.  Fifthly,  that  the  care,  instruction, 
and  education  of  such  children  as  should  be  thereafter  placed  in 
the  said  College,  should  be  left  to  the  President  and  masters  thereof,, 
for  the  time  being,  but  yet  subject  therein  as  they  were  for  all  their 
trusts  to  the  visitation  and  inspection  of  the  rector  and  governors, 
of  the  said  College,  for  the  time  being.  Sixthly,  that  the  said  Presi- 
dent and  masters,  and  his  and  their  successors,  should  once  every 


28  THE  TRANSFER. 

year  transmit  to  the  earl  of  Burlington,  and  lord  bishop  of  London, 
for  the  time  being,  a  particular  account  of  what  sum  and  sums  of 
money  they  should  hereafter  receive  by  virtue  of  the  said  decree,  as 
also  lay  out  or  expend  on  all  or  any  the  matters  aforesaid,  and  the 
occasion  or  occasions  thereof,  as  also  the  number  and  names  of  the 
Indian  children  that  should  thereafter  be  brought  into  the  said 
College,  together  with  their  progress  or  proficiency  in  their  studies, 
and  of  all  other  matters  relating  thereto.  Seventhly,  that  the  laying 
out  the  money  from  time  to  time  thereafter,  to  be  remitted,  as  also 
the  manner  and  method  of  educating  and  instructing  such  children, 
and  all  other  matters  relating  to  this  charity,  or  the  execution  of  it, 
should  be  subject  to  such  other  rules  and  methods,  as  should  from 
time  to  time  thereafter,  be  transmitted  to  the  said  President  and 
masters,  and  his  and  their  successors,  by  the  earl  of  Burlington,  and 
lord  bishop  of  London,  for  the  time  being,  and  in  default  thereof  to 
such  rules  and  methods  as  the  rectors  and  governors  of  the  said 
-College,  for  the  time  being,  should  make  or  appoint:  But  until  such 
other  and  further  rules  were  made,  the  rules  and  directions  thereby 
:given  were  to  take  place.  Eighthly,  and  lastly,  that  the  name  of 
the  benefactor  might  not  be  forgotten,  the  said  earl  of  Burlington  and 
bishop  of  London  did  direct  and  appoint  that  the  said  charity  should 
thereafter  be  called  The  Charity  of  the  Honorable  Robert  Boyle, 
Esq.,  of  the  city  of  London,  deceased.  And  afterwards  at  the  humble 
petition  of  the  defendants,  preferred  to  the  lord  high  chancellor  of 
England,  praying  a  day  for  his  lordship's  directions  for  the  consti- 
tution of  the  said  rules  and  methods  for  the  settlement  of  the  said 
^charity  in  Virginia ;  the  right  honorable  John,  lord  Somers,  baron  of 
Eversham,  lord  high  chancellor  of  England,  the  ninth  day  of  June, 
one  thousand  six  hundred  and  ninety-eight,  ordered,  adjudged,  and 
drcreed  that  the  said  rules  and  methods,  and  all  and  every  of  the 
matters  and  things  therein  contained,  should  be  ratified,  confirmed 
and  established,  with  the  additions  and  alterations  herein  after 
mentioned,  viz:  In  the  sixth  rule,  that  the  yearly  account  therein 
appointed  to  be  transmitted  to  the  earl  of  Burlington,  and  lord 
bishop  of  London,  for  the  time  being,  should  be,  from  time  to  time, 
by  the  said  earl  and  bishop,  transmitted  into  the  said  court  to  be 
filed  by  the  register  thereof.  And  whereas  in  the  seventh  rule  it  is 
mentioned  that  tin;  laying  out  the  money,  the  manner  of  educating 
the  children,  and  all  other  matters  relating  to  the  said  charity  or 
the  execution  of  it,  should  be  subject  to  such  other  rules  and 
methods  as  should,  from  time-  to  time  thereafter,  be  transmitted  to 
the  said  President  and  masters,  and  his  and  their  raoOOMOIV,  by  the 


THE  TRANSFER.  29 

said  earl  of  Burlington  and  bishop  of  London,  for  the  time  being, 
or  in  default  thereof  to  such  rules  and  methods  as  the  rector  and 
governors  of  the  said  college,  for  the  time  being,  should  make  or 
appoint :  it  was  ordered,  that  such  other  rules  and  methods,  touch- 
ing the  charity,  at  any  time  so  made  or  appointed,  should  be  first 
confirmed  and  approved  of  by  the  said  honorable  court.  And  it 
was  further  ordered,  that  Micajah  Perry,  of  London,  merchant, 
should  be  allowed  the  receiver  of  the  rents  and  profits  of  the  said 
trust  estate,  for  the  purpose  in  the  said  rules  and  methods  men- 
tioned, who  was,  from  time  to  time,  to  appoint  a  receiver  under  him 
of  the  said  rents  until  further  order;  and  also,  from  time  to  time, 
to  take  and  allow  such  receiver's  accounts  yearly,  and  to  take  the 
Account  of  the  then  receiver  of  the  said  rents,  and  of  the  arrears  in 
his  hands,  since  the  time  of  the  said  purchase,  as  by  the  proceed- 
ings and  decree  of  the  high  court  of  chancery,  in  the  same  court 
remaining,  as  of  record,  relation  being  thereunto  had,  more  fully, 
and  at  large,  doth,  and  may  appear.  And  whereas  by  reason  of  the 
delays  in  founding  the  said  College,  and  in  completing  the  full 
number  of  masters,  by  the  said  letters  patents  required,  the  clear 
rents  of  the  said  manor  of  Brafferton  have  hitherto  been  paid  to 
the  surviving  trustees  aforesaid,  who  have  from  time  to  time,  ap- 
plied the  same  to  the  education  and  maintaining  such  a  number  of 
Indian  children  as  could  be  procured ;  and  out  of  the  said  charity 
have  caused  to  be  erected  one  convenient  building  of  brick,  for  an. 
Indian  school,  and  for  the  lodgings  of  such  Indian  children  as  shall 
hereafter  be  brought  into  the  said  College ;  and  for  the  educating  of 
them  from  the  first  beginning  of  letters  till  they  should  be  ready  to- 
receive  orders,  and  be  thought  sufficient  to  be  sent  abroad  to  preach 
and  convert  the  Indians,  have  appointed  a  master  who  is  called  the 
Indian  master,  and  shall  hereafter  be  deemed  the  sixth  master  or 
professor  of  the  said  College,  and  into  the  place  of  that  master  have 
chosen,  nominated  and  appointed  Richard  Cocke,  gentleman.  And 
whereas  by  one  act  of  Assembly,  made  in  the  fourth  year  of  the 
reign  of  his  late  majesty  king  George  the  first,  of  blessed  memory, 
entitled,  An  act  for  granting  one  thousand  pounds  out  of  the  public 
fund  for  the  maintaining  and  educating  of  scholars  at  the  College  of 
William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  it  is  enacted,  that  the  said  sum  of 
one  thousand  pounds  current  money  of  Virginia,  should  be  paid  to 
the  governors  and  visitors  of  said  College,  to  be  by  them  laid  out  to 
the  best  advantage  for  maintaining  and  educating  such  and  so  many 
ingenious  scholars  as  to  them  and  their  successors  should  seem  fit 
and  expedient,  having  regard  in  their  elections  principally  to  the 


30  THE  TRANSFER. 

learning,  virtue  and  straitened  circumstances  of  such  children,  and 
that  all  natives  of  the  said  colony,  and  no  other,  should  he  freely 
admitted  to  the  said  scholarships :  Pursuant  to  which  act,  the  sum 
of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  current  money  of  Virginia,  hath 
heen  laid  out  in  the  purchase  of  one  certain  tract  or  parcel  of  land, 
-containing  two  thousand  one  hundred  and  nineteen  acres,  lying  and 
being  on  both  sides  of  Nottoway  river,  in  the  counties  of  Prince 
George,  Surry,  and  Brunswick;  and  one  other  sum  of  four  hundred 
and  seventy-six  pounds  four  shillings,  of  the  like  money,  hath  been 
laid  out  in  the  purchase  of  seventeen  negro  slaves,  to  be  employed 
in  tilling  and  manuring  the  said  lands;  and  the  sum  of  three  hun- 
dred and  seventy-three  pounds  sixteen  shillings,  residue  of  the  said 
sum  of  one  thousand  pounds,  for  the  present,  is  placed  out  at  in- 
terest, the  profits  of  which  land  and  negroes,  and  the  interest  of  the 
said  money,  being  judged  not  sufficient  to  maintain  more  than 
three  scholars,  after  the  rate  of  twelve  pounds  per  annum  for  each 
scholar,  three  scholarships  are  accordingly  settled  and  appointed 
pursuant  to  the  said  act  of  Assembly.  And  whereas,  Edward  Hill, 
late  of  the  county  of  Charles  City,  Esq.,  deceased,  by  his  last 
•will  and  testament,  bearing  date  the  day  of  in  the 

year  did  give  and  bequeath  unto  the  said  College  the  sum 

of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  to  be  paid  at  certain  times,  in  the 
said  will  mentioned ;  which  said  sum  the  said  trustees  have  agreed  to 
apply  towards  the  better  furnishing  the  library  of  the  said  College 
•with  books.  And  for  continuing  the  succession  of  the  visitors  and 
governors  of  the  said  College,  the  said  trustees,  as  often  as  any  of 
their  number  departed  this  life,  or  removed  him  or  themselves,  and 
his  or  their  families  out  of  the  said  colony,  with  design  not  to  return, 
have,  from  time  to  time,  chosen,  nominated,  and  appointed  some 
other  person  or  persons  of  the  principal  inhabitants  of  the  said 
colony  into  his  or  their  places  ;  and  the  said  Stephen  Fouace,  many 
years  ago,  having  removed  himself  and  his  family  into  foreign  parts, 
the  present  governors  and  visitors  of  the  said  College  do  consist  of 
the  following  persons,  that  is  to  say,  the  said  James  Blair,  rector, 
the  honorable  William  Gooch,  Esq.,  his  majesty's  lieutenant-governor 
and  commander  in  chief  of  the  said  colony,  Alexander  Spottswood, 
Esq.,  late  lieutenant-governor  of  the  said  colony,  Robert  Carter,  of 
the  county  of  Lancaster,  William  I>yrd,  of  the  county  of  Charles 
City,  Mann  Page,  of  the  county  of  Gloucester,  Cole  hiiu's,  of  the 
county  of  York,  Peter  Beverly,  of  the  county  of  Gloucester,  John 
Robinson,  of  Sj.otsylvania  county,  John  Carter,  of  the  county  of 
Charles  City,  .John  Grymes,  of  Middlesex  county,  and  William 


THE  TRANSFER.  31 

Randolph,  of  the  county  of  Henrico,  Esqrs.,  members  of  his  majesty's 
council  in  the  said  colony  ;  Emanuel  Jones,  of  the  parish  of  Pets- 
worth,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  Bartholomew  Yates,  of  the 
parish  of  Christ-Church,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  and  John 
Skaife,  of  the  parish  of  Stratton-Major,  in  the  county  of  King  and 
Queen,  clerks;  John  Clayton,  John  Randolph,  and  William  Robert- 
son, of  Williamsburg,  Esqrs.;  and  William  Cole,  of  the  county  of 
Warwick,  Esq.  And  whereas,  we,  the  said  James  Blair  and  Stephen 
Fouace,  being  the  longest  livers  of  the  said  trustees,  have  made  and 
established  certain  ordinances  and  statutes  for  the  better  ordering 
and  governing  the  said  College  and  all  persons  enjoying  any  office 
or  residing  therein,  which  are  set  forth  in  a  certain  schedule  annexed 
to  these  presents.  And  for  as  much  as  the  determining  the  trust 
aforesaid,  and  completing  the  said  College,  which  has  been  long 
delayed  by  the  said  fire,  and  the  low  state  of  the  revenues  aforesaid, 
is  adjudged  absolutely  necessary  for  promoting  the  welfare  thereof, 
and  the  advancement  of  learning  therein ;  and  the  General  Assem- 
bly of  the  colony  aforesaid,  hath  lately  contributed  two  hundred 
pounds  per  annum  for  one  and  twenty  years  for  better  carrying  on 
the  said  work.  Now  know  ye,  that  we  the  said  James  Blair  and 
Stephen  Fouace,  being  the  only  surviving  trustees  before  named,  in 
execution  and  performance  of  the  trust  in  us  reposed  in  pursuance 
of  the  said  recited  charter,  and  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  sum 
of  ten  shillings  to  us  in  hand  paid  by  the  President  and  masters,  or 
professors  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  the  re- 
ceipt whereof  we  do  hereby  acknowledge,  have  granted,  bargained, 
sold,  aliened,  released  and  transferred,  and  by  these  presents,  do 
grant,  bargain,  sell,  alien,  release  and  transfer  unto  the  said  Presi- 
dent and  masters,  or  professors  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary, 
in  Virginia,  all  that  messuage  commonly  called  the  College,  situate 
lying  and  being  in  the  parish  of  Bruton,  in  the  county  of  James 
City,  aforesaid,  near  the  city  of  Williamsburg,  and  all  houses,  edifices 
and  buildings,  courts,  gardens  and  orchards  thereunto  belonging  or 
appertaining  :  And  all  that  tract  or  parcel  of  land  situate,  lying  and 
being,  in  the  parish  of  Bruton,  in  the  County  of  James  City  afore- 
said, containing  by  estimation  three  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  pur- 
chased of  Thomas  Ballard  as  aforesaid :  Also  all  that  tract  or  parcel 
of  land  situate,  lying  and  being  upon  the  south  side  of  Black-water 
swamp,  in  the  county  of  Surry  aforesaid,  containing  by  estimation 
ten  thousand  acres :  Also  all  that  other  tract  or  parcel  of  land 
situate,  lying  and  being  in  Pumunkey  neck  aforesaid,  containing 
by  estimation  ten  thousand  acres :  and  also  all  that  other  tract 


32  THE  TRANSFER. 

or  parcel  of  land  situate,  lying  and  being  on  both  sides  of  Nottoway 
river,  in  the  counties  of  Prince  George,  Surry  and  Brunswick  as 
aforesaid,  containing  by  estimation  two  thousand  one  hundred  and 
nineteen  acres.  And  all  houses,  edifices,  buildings,  gardens,  orchards,, 
pastures,  woods,  ways,  waters,  profits  and  advantages  whatsoever 
held,  used,  occupied,  or  enjoyed  with  the  said  lands,  or  to  the  same 
respectively  belonging  or  appertaining,  and  the  reversion  and  re- 
versions, remainder  and  remainders  of  all  and  singular  the  premi- 
ses, and  of  every  part  and  parcel  thereof,  and  the  rents  and  profits 
thereunto  incident,  and  belonging;  and  also  all  the  estate,  right, 
title,  interest,  trust,  claim  and  demand  whatsoever  of,  us  the  said 
James  Blair  and  Stephen  Fouace  in  and  to  the  same  premises,  and 
every  part  and  parcel  thereof;  and  also  the  reversion  and  reversions,, 
remainder  and  remainders  of  any  other  lands  and  tenements  now 
vested  in  the  said  trustees  by  the  gift  of  any  person  or  persons 
whatsoever :  To  have  and  to  hold  all  and  singular  the  said  messuage, 
lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments,  with  the  appurtenances,  unto 
the  said  President  and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  College  of 
William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  and  their  successors  for  ever.  And 
we  the  said  James  Blair  and  Stephen  Fouace,  further,  for  the  con- 
siderations aforesaid,  have  granted,  assigned,  and  transferred,  and 
by  these  presents  do  grant,  assign,  and  transfer  unto  the  said  Presi- 
dent and  masters,  or  professors,  of  the  said  College  of  William  and 
Mary,  in  Virginia,  all  the  negro  slaves  by  the  said  trustees,  from 
time  to  time  purchased,  now  living  upon  the  said  lands  or  any  part 
or  parcel  thereof,  and  their  increase :  Also  all  that  entire  revenue  of 
one  penny  per  pound  upon  all  tobacco  exported  out  of  Virginia  or 
Maryland  to  any  other  of  the  British  plantations  in  America,  with 
all  tobacco  profits,  issues  and  emoluments  to  be  had  or  taken  in- 
stead thereof,  or  arising  by  or  from  the  same :  Also  the  office  of 
surveyor-general  of  the  colony  of  Virginia  aforesaid:  Also  the  said 
legacy  or  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  given  by  the  said 
Edward  Hill  aforesaid:  And  also  the  said  sum  of  three  hundred 
and  seventy-three  pounds  sixteen  shillings,  residue  of  the  said  sum 
of  one  thousand  pounds  given  by  the  said  General  Assembly  as 
afore-  iid,  and  the  interest  thereof:  And  all  other  debts  now  due  or 
owini:  to  the  said  trustees  by  virtue  of  the  trust  aforesaid.  And  also 
all  tin-  book^,  household  goods,  utensils,  and  furniture  to  the  said 
Colli-L'f  belonirin;::  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  ne.uro  slaves,  the 
revenue  of  one  penny  per  pound  upon  tobacco  exported  out  of 
Virginia  and  Maryland  as  aforesaid,  and  the  ofliee  of  surveyor- 
general  aforesaid,  ami  all  and  singular  other  the  premises  last  nun- 


THE  TRANSFER. 


33 


tioned,  with  all  profits,  issues,  emoluments,  perquisites,  fees,  ad- 
vantages, liberties,  places  and  pre-eminences  to  the  same  respectively 
belonging  or  appertaining  to  the  said  President  and  masters,  or 
professors  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Virginia. 

In  witness  whereof,  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  and  affixed 
our  seals,  this  twenty-seventh  day  of  February,  in  the  second  year 
of  the  reign  of  our  sovereign  lord  king  George  the  second. 

JAMES  BLAIR,  [L.  s.] 

STEPHEN  FOUACE,  [L.  s.] 


Sealed  and  delivered  by  the  within 
named  JAMES  BLAIR,  in  the  presence 
of 

WILLIAM  GOOCH, 

MANN  PAGE, 

JOHN  GRYMES, 

JOHN  CLAYTON, 

JOHN  KANDOLPH. 


Sealed  and  delivered  by  the  within 
named  STEPHEN  FOUACE,  in  the  pre- 
sence of 

A.  SPOTSWOOD, 
JOSHUA  MONGER, 
ARTHUR  GRYMES, 

[his  mark] 

SAM'L  BLACKSHAW,  at  Mr.  CuePs, 
Stationer,  Chancery  lane,  Lond. 
JOHN  RANDOLPH. 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH* 

OF  THE 

COLLEGE  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MARY, 

I2ST 


Soon  after  the  settlement  at  Jamestown  (1607)  fifteen  thousand 
acres  of  land  were  appropriated  at  the  instance  of  Sir  Edwin  Sandys, 
President  of  the  Company  in  England,  to  endow  a  University,  to  be 
established  at  Henrico,  for  the  colonists  and  Indians.  About  the 
same  time  (1619)  fifteen  hundred  pounds  were  contributed  in  Eng- 
land, through  the  bishops,  to  endow  a  College  in  Virginia  for  the 
Indians ;  and  a  little  later  (1621)  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
were  subscribed  to  endow  the  East  India  School  at  Charles  City> 
and  one  thousand  acres  of  land,  five  servants  and  an  overseer 
allotted  to  it.  This  was  designed  to  be  preparatory  to  the  Univer- 
sity at  Henrico.  Mr.  George  Thorpe,  a  gentleman  of  his  majesty's 
privy  chamber,  came  over  to  be  superintendent  of  the  University, 
but  was,  on  the  22d  March,  1622,  with  three  hundred  and  forty  of 
the  colonists,  including  a  number  of  the  College  tenants,  killed  by 
the  Indians. 

Thus  was  defeated  the  first  attempt  to  establish  a  College  in  Vir- 
ginia. No  further  steps  seem  to  have  been  taken  in  this  direction 
till  1660-61,  when  the  "Grand  Assembly,"  held  at  James  City, 
March  23d  of  that  year,  passed  an  act  entitled  "  Provision  for  a  Col- 
ledge,"  in  these  words : 

"  Whereas  the  want  of  able  and  faithful  ministers  in  this  country 
deprives  us  of  those  great  blessings  and  mercies  that  ahvai.s  attend 
upon  the  service  of  God;  which  want,  by  reason  of  our  irn>at  dis- 
tance from  our  native  country,  cannot  in  probability  be  alwais  sup- 
plyed  from  thence;  Be  it  enacted,  that  for  the  advance  of  learning, 
education  of  youth,  supply  of  the  ministry,  and  promotion  of  piety, 
then-  U  land  taken  upon  purchases  for  a  Colledge  and  fn •»•  schoole, 
and  that  then  l»c,  with  as  much  speede  as  may  l>e  convenient, 

••i  cftli.-  matin- contain.-,!  In  this  sk.-t.-h  H-lm-  t<»  tin-  labors  uinl  n-s.-:ir.-li.-s  of  the 
late  Profeaaor  Robert  J.  Morrison,  who  was  an  ai>l«:  an«l  zi-ulous  member  of  the  College 
Faculty. 


HISTOEICAL  SKETCH.  35 

houseing  erected  thereon  for  entertainment  of  students  and  schol- 
lers." 

This  act  was  passed  in  the  13th  Charles  II. 

Again,  at  the  same  session  of  the  "  Grand  Assembly,"  Act  35th 
was  passed,  entitled  "A  Petition  in  behalf  of  the  Church."  "  Be  it 
enacted,  that  there  be  a  petition  drawn  up  by  this  Grand  Assem- 
bly to  the  King's  Most  Excellent  Majestie  for  his  letters  pattents  to 
collect  and  gather  the  charity  of  well  disposed  people  in  England 
for  the  erecting  of  colledges  and  schooles  in  this  countrie,  and  also 
for  his  Majestie's  letters  to  both  Universities  of  Oxford  and  Cam- 
bridge to  furnish  the  church  here  with  ministers  for  the  present,  and 
this  petition  be  recommended  to  the  Right  Honorable  Governor, 
Sir  William  Berkeley." 

Again:  "Att  a  Grand  Assembly  held  att  James  Cittie,  in  Virginia, 
23d  March,  1660-61,  the  following  order  was  made  in  the  govern- 
ment of  the  Right  Honorable  Sir  William  Berkeley,  his  Majestie's 
Governor,  Mr.  Henry  Soanes,  Speaker : 

"  Whereas,  for  the  advancement  of  learning,  promoting  piety,  and 
provision  of  an  able  and  successive  ministrie  in  this  countrie,  it 
hath  been  thought  fit  that  a  Colledge  of  students  of  the  liberal  arts 
and  sciences  be  erected  and  maintayned,  in  pursuance  whereof  his 
Majestie's  Governor,  Council  of  State  and  Burgesses  of  the  present 
Grand  Assembly  have  severally  subscribed  several  considerable 
sums  of  money  and  quantities  of  tobacco  (out  of  their  charity  and 
devotion),  to  be  paid  to  the  Honorable  Grand  Assembly,  or  such 
treasurer  or  treasurers  as  they  shall  now,  or  their  successors  here- 
after at  any  time  appoint,  upon  demand,  after  a  place  is  provided 
and  built  upon  for  that  intent  and  purpose :  it  is  ordered  that  the 
commissioners  of  the  severall  county  courts  do,  at  the  next  follow- 
inge  courts  in  their  severall  countys,  subscribe  such  sums  of  money 
and  tobacco  towards  the  furthering  and  promoting  the  said  persons 
and  necessary  worke,  to  be  paid  by  them  or  their  heirs,  as  they  shall 
think  fitt,  and  that  they  also  take  the  subscriptions  of  such  other 
persons  at  their  said  courts  who  shall  be  willing  to  contribute  to- 
wards the  same.  And  that  after  such  subscriptions  taken,  they 
send  orders  to  the  vestrys  of  the  severall  parishes  in  their  severall 
countys  for  the  subscriptions  of  such  inhabitants  and  others  who 
have  not  already  subscribed,  and  that  the  same  be  returned  to 
Francis  Morrison.  Esq." 

For  these  acts  and  order,  see  2d  volume  Henning's  "Statutes  at 
Large." 

At  a  Grand  Assembly  held  at  James  City,  March  23,  1661-62,  an 


36  HISTOEICAL  SKETCH. 

act  to  make  "  Provision  for  a  Colledge,"*  the  same  as  that  of  1860-61, 
was  passed.  Thus  was  begun  and  endowed  "  The  Colledge"  in  Vir- 
ginia as  early  as  1660-61. 

It  was  appropriated  for  by  the  tc  Grand  Assembly"  in  lands,  sub- 
scribed for  by  members  of  the  goverment,  council  and  House  of  Bur- 
gesses, and  contributed  to  by  the  Crown,  subscribed  to  by  the  mem- 
bers of  the  county  courts  and  parish  vestries,  and  by  private  indi- 
viduals largely,  and,  doubtless,  under  the  regular  clergy  of  the 
Church  of  England,  was  the  only  College  where  any  regular  liberal 
teaching  was  had  for  those  of  the  colonists  who  could  not  send  their 
sons  to  the  schools  of  the  mother  country.  Its  charter  and  regular 
endowments  were  obstructed  by  the  revolutionary  and  disturbing 
events  both  in  England  and  the  colony :  the  corporation  had  no 
other  name  than  "  The  Colledge  "  until  the  fourth  year  of  William 
and  Mary  ;  it  had  endowments  and  was  begun  as  early  as  1660-61. 
That  the  "Colledge"  existed  prior  to  1693,  when  it  was  chartered 
by  the  name  of  William  and  Mary,  is  clearly  implied  by  "  act  in., 
October,  1693, 5th  William  and  Mary" — the  preamble  of  which  re- 
cites the  charter.  That  their  Majesties  had  most  graciously  pleased 
upon  the  humble  supplication  of  the  Generall  Assembly,  by  their 
charter,  being  dated  the  eighth  day  of  February,  in  the  fourth  year 
of  their  reign,  to  grant  their  royall  lycence  certaine  trustees,  to  make, 
found,  erect  and  establish  a  college  named  the  College  of  William 
and  Mary,  in  Virginia,  at  a  certaine  place  within  this  government 
known  by  the  name  of  Townsend's  Land,  and  heretofore  appointed 
by  the  General  Assembly.  And  for  Townsend's  Land,  previously 
appointed  as  the  place,  was  substituted  (under  authority  given  in 
the  charter,  for  the  reason,  without  doubt,  of  the  objections  to  Town- 
send's Land — found  by  experience  to  exist — to  the  effect  that,  "  if 
by  reason  of  unwholesomeness,  or  any  other  cause,  the  said  place 
shall  not  be  approved  of,  wheresoever  else  the  General  Assembly  of 
our  colony  of  Virginia,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  shall  think  fit, 
witliin  the  bounds  of  the  aforesaid  colony,  to  continue  for  all  tii. 
coming")  the  Middle  Plantations,  now  Williamsbuig,  as  the  place 
for  «  the  College.  Thus  it  appears  that  the  site  of  "The  Col- 

!(.•<! .::<•"  had  at  some  time  previous  been  selected,  and  that  Town- 
sent  IV  Land  was  this  site.  No  plausible  reason,  unless  this  be  so, 


•  This  act  Is  taken  from  I'urvis;  tin- art  of  K,r,u  \;\  is  t;ik«-n  from  u  MS.  brloiitflnff  to  Thos. 

n,  late  PnjHMmt  of  tin-  fnlii-il   sutrs,   :m<!  in  his  own  handwriting,  having  been 

transcribed  by  him  from  tin:  original  In  tin-  ollh-c  of  tin-  (j.-ni-rul  AsHrmMy.     The  tnu:  date  Of 

the  act,  Uoubtlesa,  la  therefore  March  23, 1060-61.    -See  'M  vol.  Homing's  Statutes,  pp.  IT,  26, 

87,06. 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  37 

can  be  given  for  the  fact  that  Townsend's  Land,  not  otherwise  known, 
and  being  in  no  other  respect  noteworthy,  was  the  only  place  of  the 
colony  specified  in  the  charter. 

Sir  William  Berkeley,  notwithstanding  his  prejudices  against  free 
schools  and  printing,  favored  the  order,  and  promoted  the  subscrip- 
tions for  a  college.  The  twenty-third  enquiry  submitted  by  the 
Lords  Commissioners  of  Foreign  Plantations  to  him  in  1670,  and 
answered  in  1671,  was,  "What  course  is  taken  about  instructing 
the  people  within  your  government  in  the  Christian  religion?  and 
what  provision  is  there  made  for  the  paying  of  your  ministry  ?" 

Answer.  "The  same  course  that  is  taken  in  England  out  of  towns ; 
every  man,  according  to  his  ability,  instructing  his  children.  We 
have  forty-eight  parishes,  and  our  ministry  are  well  paid,  and,  by 
my  consent,  should  be  better,  if  they  would  pray  oftener  and  preach 
less.  But  of  all  other  commodities,  so  of  this ;  the  worst  are  sent 
us,  and  we  had  few  that  we  could  boast  of  since  the  persecution  in 
Cromwell's  tyranny  drove  divers  worthy  men  hither.  But,  I  thank 
God,  there  are  no  free  schools  nor  printing,  and  I  hope  we  shall  not 
have  these  hundred  years;  for  learning  has  brought  disobedience 
and  heresy  and  sects  into  the  world,  and  printing  has  divulged 
them,  and  libels  against  the  best  government.  God  keep  us  from 
both ! "  (33,  2d  Henning's  Statutes  at  Large.) 

This  shows  how  aristocratic  was  the  prejudice  of  the  royal  Gov- 
ernor against  popular  instruction.  He  was  in  favor  of  establishing 
"a  College  of  liberal  arts  and  sciences" — liberal  to  the  gentlemen, 
but  very  illiberal  to  the  people.  His  ideas  of  "free  schools"  and 
"learning"  and  "printing"  must  have  been  a  forecast  of  Bacon's 
rebellion,  which,  five  years  later,  drove  him  from  "James  Cittie" 
across  the  Chesapeake  to  Old  Plantation  on  the  peninsula  of  North- 
ampton. 

Thus  it  is  claimed  that  "The  Colledge"  was  in  existence  from 
1660-61,  though  it  had  no  other  name  till  the  fourth  year  of  the 
reign  of  William  and  Mary.  The  charter  constituted  trustees  of  a 
corporation,  but  the  public  and  private  charity  existed  in  the  Grand 
Assembly,  holding  by  the  hands  of  its  treasurer,  for  the  time  being, 
and  by  Mr.  Morrison,  its  custodian.  (This  interesting  history  of  the 
establishment  of  the  "The  Colledge"  in  1660-61  is  condensed  from 
the  Appendix  to  "Seven  Decades  of  the  Union,"  by  General  Henry 
A.  Wise.) 

In  1688-89,  an  additional  sum  of  twenty-five  hundred  pounds 
sterling  was  subscribed  by  a  few  wealthy  Virginians  and  benevolent 
English  merchants  to  the  endowment  of  "The  Colledge,"  and  the 


38  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

Colonial  Assembly,  in  1691,  sent  the  Rev.  James  Blair,  afterwards 
Commissary  of  Virginia,  to  solicit  a  charter  from  the  Crown. 

Queen  Mary,  to  whom  Mr.  Blair  first  unfolded  the  object  of  his 
visit,  was  well  pleased  with  the  noble  design,  and  zealously  espoused 
it.  William  concurred  with  her,  and  they  gave  "out  of  the  quit- 
rents"  two  thousand  pounds  towards  the  building.  Mr.  Blair  was 
directed  to  convey  to  Seymour,  the  Attorney  General,  the  royal  com- 
mands to  issue  the  charter.  "  Seymour  remonstrated  against  this 
liberality,  upon  the  ground  that  the  nation  was  engaged  in  an  ex- 
pensive war;  that  the  money  was  wanted  for  better  purposes,  and 
that  he  did  not  see  the  slighest  occasion  for  a  College  in  Virginia." 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Blair  represented  to  him  that  its  intention  was  to 
educate  and  qualify  young  men  to  be  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  and 
begged  Mr.  Attorney  would  consider  that  the  people  of  Virginia  had 
souls  to  be  saved  as  well  as  the  people  of  England.  "Souls!"  ex- 
claimed the  imperious  Seymour;  "damn  your  souls,  make  tobacco!" 
The  charter  of  the  College  was  prepared,  however,  and  signed  on 
the  8th  day  of  February,  in  the  fourth  year  of  the  reign  of  William 
and  Mary,  which  date  corresponds  under  the  new  style  with  the 
19th  February,  1693.  It  was  granted  "to  the  end"  (nearly  identical 
with  that  given  in  the  act  of  1660-61)  "that  the  church  of  Virginia 
may  be  furnished  with  a  seminary  of  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  and 
that  the  youth  may  be  piously  educated  in  good  letters  and  manners, 
and  that  the  Christian  faith  may  be  propagated  amongst  the  Wes- 
tern Indians  to  the  glory  of  Almighty  God."  The  charter,  as  has 
been  stated,  fixed  the  location  of  the  College  on  the  land  of  Colonel 
Townsend,  on  the  south  side  of  York  river,  near  Yorktown.  This 
is  supposed  to  be  Shield's  Point.  "  If,  by  reason  of  unwholesome- 
ness  or  any  other  cause,  the  said  place  shall  not  be  approved  of," 
the  College  is  to  be  established  "wheresoever  else  the  General  As- 
sembly of  our  Colony  of  Virginia,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  shall 
tli ink  fit,  within  the  bounds  of  the  aforesaid  Colony,  to  continue  for 
all  times  coining." 

In  the  exercise  of  the  power  conferred  on  the  General  Assembly 
to  move  the  College  from  Townsend's  land,  the  3d  act  of  the  As- 
sembly in  the  fifth  year  of  the  reign  of  William  and  Mary,  before 
!,  provides  :  "That  Middle  Plantation  (now  Williamsburg)  be 
j.hice  for  the  said  College  of  William  and  Mary  in  Vir- 

ginia, and  that  the  said  CoHeire  he  at  that  place  eivctrd  and  built  as 
re  the  church  now  standing  in  Middle  Plantation  old  fields  as 
convenience  will  permitt." 

Trustees   named  in  the   charter  were  constituted   the  body  corpo- 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

rate  to  establish  the  College,  and  to  appoint  masters  or  professors, 
but  were  required  after  the  establishment  to  transfer  to  the  Presi- 
dent, Masters  or  Professors,  or  their  successors,  the  lands,  inheritances, 
chattels,  &c.* 

The  trustees  elected  by  the  General  Assembly,  to  whom  the  royal 
license  was  granted,  were  Francis  Nicholson,  Lieutenant-Governor 
of  the  Colonies  of  Virginia  and  Maryland ;  William  Cole,  Ralph 
Wormley,  William  Byrd  and  John  Lear,  Esquires;  John  Blair, 
John  Farnifold,  Stephen  Fouace  and  Samuel  Gray,  Clerks ;  Thomas 
Milner,  Christopher  Robinson,  Charles  Scarborough,  John  Smith, 
Benjamin  Harrison,  Miles  Carey,  Henry  Hartwell,  William  Ran- 
dolph and  Matthew  Page,  gentlemen! 

The  charter  further  provides,  that  the  College  "shall  be  called  and 
denominated  forever  'the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  in  Vir- 
ginia;' and  'the  President  and  Masters,  or  Professors  of  the  said 
College,  shall  be  a  body  politic  in  deed  and  in  name.' " 

It  was  further  provided,  that  after  the  transfer  of  the  corporate 
powers,  the  trustees  should  be  "  the  true,  sole  and  undoubted  visi- 
tors and  governors  of  the  College." 

The  charter  confirms  to  the  President  and  Masters,  or  Professors, 
that  there  shall  be  a  chancellor  of  the  College;  appoints  "the  Rev- 
erend Father  in  God,  Henry  ,f  by  Divine  permission,  Bishop  of 
London,"  first  chancellor,  and  requires  that  the  visitors  and  gov- 
ernors of  the  College  shall  elect  a  discreet  person  to  this  office  every 
seven  years. 

Towards  the  endowment  of  the  College,  William  and  Mary  con- 
tributed one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  eighty-five  pounds  four- 
teen shillings  and  tenpence,  raised  out  of  the  quit-rents  of  the 
colony,  and  at  that  time  in  the  hands  of  William  Byrd,  Auditor ; 
one  penny  a  pound  on  all  tobacco  exported  from  Virginia  and 
Maryland;  the  office  of  Surveyor  General,  with  all  its  issues,  fees, 
profits,  advantages,  conveniences,  liberties,  places,  privileges,  and 
pre-eminences  whatsoever ;  ten  thousand  acres  of  land  lying  on  the 
south  side  of  Blackwater  swamp,  and  ten  thousand  acres  lying  in 
that  neck  of  land,  commonly  called  Pamunkey  neck,  between  the 
forks  of  York  river. 

The  faculty  had  the  right  to  elect  either  one  of  their  own  body, 
one  of  the  visitors  of  the  College,  or  "  one  of  the  better  sort  of  in- 

*  The  original  record  of  the  charter  of  the  College  is  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Rolls,  England ; 
and  the  original  record  of  the  transfer,  a  deed  of  bargain  and  sale  from  the  visitors  to  the 
faculty,  is  in  one  of  the  courts  of  record  of  Westminster  Hall,  London.— Robt.  J.  Morrison. 

t  Henry  Compton. 


40  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

habitants  of  the  colony,"  to  represent  the  College  in  the  House  of 
Burgesses. 

The  College  building  was  planned  by  Sir  Christopher  Wren,  and 
it  was  designed,  says  Beverly,  "to  be  an  entire  square  when  com- 
pleted." The  first  commencement  exercises  were  held  in  1700,  "  at 
which  there  was  a  great  concourse  of  people  ;  several  planters  came 
thither  in  coaches,  and  others  in  sloops  from  New  York,  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Maryland,  it  being  a  new  thing  in  that  part  of  America 
to  hear  graduates  perform  their  exercises.  The  Indians  had  the 
curiosity,  some  of  them,  to  visit  Williamsburg  upon  that  occasion  ; 
and  the  whole  country  rejoiced,  as  if  they  had  some  relish  of  learn- 
ing."* 

The  General  Assembly  of  Virginia  "was  held  at  his  Majesty's 
Royal  College  of  William  and  Mary,"  from  1700  until  1705,  when, 
together  with  library  and  philosophical  apparatus,  it  was  destroyed 
by  fire.  "  The  fire  broke  out  about  ten  o'clock  at  night,  in  a  public 
time.  The  Governor  and  all  the  gentlemen  that  were  in  town  came 
up  to  the  lamentable  spectacle,  many  getting  out  of  their  beds. 
But  the  fire  had  got  such  power  before  it  was  discovered,  and  was 
so  fierce,  that  there  was  no  hope  of  putting  a  stop  to  it,  and  there- 
fore no  attempts  were  made  to  that  end."  The  second  building  was 
commenced  in  the  time  of  Governor  Spotswood,  but  owing  to  the 
want  of  available  means,  and  the  scarcity  of  workmen,  it  was  not 
finished  until  1723. 

(Extract  from  Beverly^s  History  of  Virginia,  1722.) 

"  The  College  was  burned  in  the  first  year  of  Governor  Nott's  time,  (how, 
was  not  known.)  It  was  not  rebuilt  till  Governor  Spotswood's  time,  when  it 
was  raised  to  the  same  bigness  as  before." 

(Extract  from  Present  State  of  Virginia,  by  Ilugli  Jones,  1729.) 

"The  College  front,  which  looks  due  east,  is  double,  and  is  136  feet  long. 
At  the  north  end  runs  back  a  large  wing,  which  is  a  handsome  hall,  :m«\v«  -ru- 
ble to  which  the  chapel  is  to  be  built.  The  building  i-  beautiful  and  commo- 
dious, In-ill^  first  modelled  by  Sir  Christopher  Wivn.  adapted  to  tin'  nature  of 
the  country  by  the  gentlemen  there;  and  since  it  was  burnt  down,  it  has  been 
rebuilt,  nicely  contrived  and  adorned  by  the  ingenious  direction  of  Governor 
Spotswood,  and  is  not  altogether  unlike  ('In-l-ea  Hospital." 

A  f<  t  he  fin-  of   1  s.V.i.  the  College   building  wa<   iv-pla- 

and  when  the  old  pla-t«-r  was  taken  down,  the  traces  in  the  wall-  «>f  an  rxt.-n- 
.•oiina^rationi  wen    n<>(  to  he  mi-taken.     R  i  iouht  that    th«-  | 

lt€  and  wall-  aiv  the  ori-inal  ones. 


in-fory  of  Virginia. 

"f  1705,  or  of  that  of  1T81,  when  the  College  building 
was  heklaH  a  hospital  i  >  forces. 


HISTOEICAL  SKETCH.  41 

In  1719  it  was  occupied  by  the  convention  of  the  colonial  clergy. 

Now  that  the  College  was  fully  established,  the  transfer  of  the 
corporate  rights  was  shortly  made  to  the  faculty  in  1729,  and  the 
trustees  became  "the  visitors  and  governors  of  the  College  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary,  in  Virginia." 

The  first  entry  in  the  oldest  record  book  of  the  faculty  is,  "  In 
nomine  Dei,  Patris,  Filii  et  Spiritus  Sancti,  Amen."  Until  the  Rev- 
olution the  bishops  of  London,  with  a  single  interregnum,  were 
chancellors  of  the  College.  On  the  18th  of  January,  1764,  the  Earl 
of  Hardwicke  had  been  elected  chancellor ;  but  the  intelligence  of 
this  did  not  arrive  in  England  until  after  his  death,  of  which  his 
son  and  successor  in  the  title  wrote  to  apprise  the  faculty.  Before 
the  war  of  Independence  its  presidents  were  the  commissaries  or 
representatives,  in  the  colony,  of  the  bishops  of  London;  and  since 
the  Revolution  Bishop  Madison  and  other  distinguished  divines,  in- 
cluding the  Right  Reverend  John  Johns,  now  Bishop  of  Virginia, 
have  presided  over  it.  Indeed,  every  Bishop  of  Virginia  has  been 
connected  with  it.  As  soon  as  established,  the  College  became  the 
nursery  of  the  church  in  Virginia,  and  at  later  periods  proved  an 
efficient  support  in  times  of  adversity. 

Bishop  Meade,  in  "  Old  Churches,  Ministers  and  Families  of  Vir- 
ginia," says :  "  One  thing  is  set  forth  in  praise  of  William  and  Mary 
which  we  delight  to  record,  viz :  that  the  hopes  and  designs  of  its 
founders  and  early  benefactors,  in  relation  to  its  being  a  nursery  of 
pious  ministers,  were  not  entirely  disappointed.  It  is  positively 
affirmed,  by  those  most  competent  to  speak,  that  the  best  ministers 
in  Virginia  were  those  educated  at  the  College  and  sent  over  to  Eng- 
land for  ordination.  The  foreigners  were  the  great  scandal  of  the 
church." 

The  condition  upon  which  twenty  thousand  acres  of  land  were 
given  to  the  College  was,  that  the  President  and  Professors  should 
pay  annually,  on  the  5th  of  November,  two  copies  of  Latin  verses 
to  the  governor  or  lieutenant-governor  of  the  Dominion  of  Virginia. 
That  this  was  complied  with,  we  may  infer  from  the  following  ex- 
tract from  the  Virginia  Gazette  of  November  12th,  1736:  "On  this 
day  sen'night,  being  the  5th  of  November,  the  President,  masters 
and  scholars  of  William  and  Mary  College  went,  according  to  their 
annual  custom,  in  a  body  to  the  Governor's  to  present  his  honor 
with  two  copies  of  Latin  verses,  in  obedience  to  their  charter,  as  a 
grateful  acknowledgment  for  two  valuable  tracts  of  land  given  the 
said  College  by  their  late  King  William  and  Queen  Mary.  Mr. 
President  delivered  the  verses  to  his  honor,  and  two  of  the  young 


42  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

gentlemen  spoke  them.  It  is  further  observed  that  there  were 
upwards  of  sixty  scholars  present,  a  much  greater  number  than  has 
been  any  year  before  since  the  foundation  of  the  College." 

The  colonial  governors,  for  the  most  part,  took  an  active  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  the  College. 

(Extract  from  Millers  Retrospect,  II.  378.) 

"Lord  Botetoiirt  attended  morning  and  evening  prayers  in  the  College 
chapel." 

WELD,  in  his  travels,  1798,  says  :  "  The  stature  of  Lord  Botetourt"  (now  be- 
longing to  the  College)  "was  defaced,  and  the  head  and  arm  knocked  off 
during  the  war  (Revolutionary)  when  party  rage  was  at  its  highest  pitch,  and 
everything  pertaining  to  royalty  obnoxious." 

Lord  Botetourt  gave  a  sum  of  money,  the  interest  of  which  was 
sufficient  to  purchase  annually  two  gold  medals — one  to  be  given  to 
the  best  classical  scholar,  the  other  to  the  best  scholar  in  philosophy. 
This  medal  was  annually  awarded  until  the  Revolution.  The  first 
competitors  for  the  Episcopate  of  Virginia,  the  Rev.  James  Madison 
and  the  Rev.  Samuel  Shield,  both  received  this  medal ;  the  former 
in  1772,  the  latter  in  1773. 

This  medal  was  also  conferred  on  Mr.  Nathaniel  Burwell  in  1772 ; 
Mr.  David  Stewart,  of  King  George,  1773 ;  on  Mr.  Joseph  Eggleston, 
of  Amelia,  1774;  and  the  same  year,  on  Mr.  Walker  Maury,  of  Wil- 
liamsburg ;  and  in  1775,  on  Mr.  John  White,  of  King  William,  and 
Mr.  Thomas  Evans,  of  the  Eastern  Shore  of  Virginia. 

The  Hon.  Robert  Boyle,  who  died  in  1691,  in  his  will  directed  his 
executors,  the  Right  Hon.  Richard,  Earl  of  Burlington,  Sir  Henry 
Ashurst,  Knight  and  Baronet,  and  John  Marr,  gentleman,  "to  apply 
his  personal  estate  to  such  charitable  and  pious  uses  as  they,  in 
their  discretion,  should  think  fit."  After  some  litigation  in  Eng- 
land, in  pursuance  of  a  decree  of  court,  the  Earl  of  Burlington  and 
Henry,  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  agreed,  on  the  21st  of  December, 
1697,  to  bestow  the  charity  m  Virginia,  arran^in^  that  the  annual 
rents,  subject  to  ninety  pounds,  given  to  Harvard  University  at 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  should  be  paid  to  the  President  and 
Professors  of  the  Culle^e  of  William  and  .Mary  in  Virginia,  lor  the 
purpose  of  maintaining  and  edueatin.-j;  Indian  seholar>.  The  fund 
wa.-  din  an  Bngliflh  estate  ealled  the  nrall'erton,  and  with 

the  proceed*  of  it  the  huildin-  on  the  Co!:  i,  now  known   as 

the  lirail'erton,  v.  ;>nd  until  the  Revolution,  Indians  v 

supported    ai.d    educated    by   this  charity.     '1  tOVOT    manu- 

scripts inform  us  that  ''during  th<  war  with  the  Jndians, 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  43 

in  which  North  Carolina  had  been  engaged,  Governor  Spotswood 
demanded  of  the  tribes  tributary  to  Virginia  a  number  of  the  sons 
of  the  chiefs,  to  be  sent  to  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  where 
they  served  as  hostages  to  keep  the  peace,  and  enjoyed  the  advan- 
tage of  learning  to  read  and  write  English,  and  were  instructed  in 
the  Christian  religion.  But  on  returning  to  their  own  people,  they 
relapsed  into  idolatry  and  barbarism." 

(Extract  from  the  "Present  State  of  Virginia,  by  Hugh  Jones,"  published  in 

London  in  1724.) 

Speaking  of  the  Indian  school  of  the  College,  he  says  :  "  The  young  Indians, 
procured  from  the  tributary  or  foreign  nations  with  much  difficulty,  were  for- 
merly boarded  and  lodged  in  town,  where  abundance  of  them  used  to  die, 
either  through  sickness,  change  of  provision  and  way  of  life,  or,  as  some  will 
have  it,  often  for  want  of  proper  necessaries  and  due  care  taken  with  them. 
Those  of  them  that  have  escaped  well,  and  have  been  taught  to  read  and 
write,  have,  for  the  most  part,  returned  to  their  home,  some  with  and  some 
without  baptism,  where  they  follow  their  own  savage  customs  and  heathenish 
rites.  A  few  of  them  lived  as  servants  with  the  English,  or  loitered  and  idled 
away  their  tune  in  laziness  and  mischief.  But  it  is  a  pity  more  care  is  not 
taken  of  them  after  they  are  dismissed  from  school.  They  have  admirable  ca- 
pacities when  their  humors  and  tempers  are  perfectly  understood." 

The  foundation  of  the  President's  house  was  laid  on  the  31st  of 
July,  1732 — the  President  (the  Rev.  James  Blair),  Mr.  Dawson  (af- 
terwards Commissary  of  Virginia),  Mr.  Fry  (afterwards  Colonel  Fry, 
under  whom  Washington  served),  Mr.  Stith  (the  historian),  and  Mr. 
Fox,  laying  the  first  five  bricks  in  order  one  after  another.  During 
the  American  Revolution  this  building  was  burnt  whilst  it  was  oc- 
cupied by  the  French  troops,  before  the  siege  of  Yorktown;  but 
Louis  XVI.  generously  rebuilt  it,  and  about  this  time  presented  five 
or  six  hundred  volumes  of  great  value  to  the  library  of  the  College. 
The  walls,  however,  had  not  been  much  injured  by  the  fire. 

The  old  chapel  was  first  opened  on  the  28th  of  June,  1732,  and 
the  Rev.  James  Blair,  the  President,  preached  a  sermon  from  the 
text:  "Train  up  a  child  in  the  way  he  should  go,  and  when  he  is 
old  he  will  not  depart  from  it."  Prov.  xxii.  6.  In  "  Old  Churches 
and  Families  of  Virginia,"  Bishop  Meade  says :  "  Williamsburg  was 
once  the  miniature  copy  of  the  Court  of  St.  James,  somewhat  aping 
the  manners  of  that  royal  place,  while  the  old  church  and  its  grave- 
yard, and  the  College  chapel  were — si  licet  cum  magnis  componere 
parva — the  Westminster  Abbey  and  the  St.  Paul's  of  London,  where 
the  great  ones  were  interred."  Sir  John  Randolph  was  the  first 
person  buried  in  the  College  chapel. 


44  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

(Extract  from  Bishop  Meade's  "Old  ChurcJies.") 

"So  Williainsburg,  while  it  was  the  seat  of  government  and  of  the  College 
of  William  and  Mary,  was,  to  a  great  extent,  Virginia." 

The  remains  of  Lord  Botetourt  rest,  it  is  believed,  in  the  same 
vault  with  those  of  Sir  John  Randolph. 

Peyton  Randolph,  the  President  of  the  first  American  Congress, 
and  John  Randolph,  Attorney-General  of  the  Crown  for  the  Colony 
of  Virginia,  sons  of  Sir  John  Randolph ;  Bishop  Madison,  the  first 
Bishop  of  Virginia,  and  Chancellor  Nelson,  were  also  buried  in  the 
College  chapel. 

(Extract from  Virginia  Gazette,  Nov.  29$,  1776.) 

"On  Thursday  last,  the  remains  of  our  beloved  and  amiable  fellow-citizen, 
the  Hon.  Peyton  Randolph,  were  conveyed  in  a  hearse  to  the  College  chapel, 
attended  by  the  Worshipful  Brotherhood  of  Free  Masons,  Houses  of  Assembly, 
a  number  of  other  gentlemen,  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  city.  The  body  was 
received  from  the  hearse  by  six  gentlemen  of  the  House  of  Delegates,  who 
conveyed  it  to  the  family  vault  in  the  chapel,  after  which  an  excellent  oration 
was  pronounced  from  the  pulpit  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Davis,  in  honor  of  the 
deceased,  and  recommending  it  to  the  respectable  audience  to  imitate  his  vir- 
tues. The  oration  being  ended,  the  body  was  deposited  in  the  vault,  when 
every  spectator  paid  the  last  tribute  of  tears  to  the  memory  of  their  departed 
and  much  honored  friend.  The  remains  were  brought  from  Philadelphia  by 
his  nephew,  Edmund  Randolph,  in  pursuance  of  the  orders  of  his  widow." 

In  1726,  a  duty  was  laid  on  liquors  by  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
to  be  applied  to  the  current  expenses  of  the  College  and  for  found- 
ing scholarships. 

In  1717  Mrs.  Philarity  Giles/of  Isle  of  Wight,  left  by  will  her  re- 
versionary interest  in  lands,  on  the  Blackwater  in  the  same  county, 
to  the  College. 

In  1759,  a  grant  was  made  by  the  House  of  Burgesses  to  the  Col- 
lege of  the  proceeds  of  the  tax  on  peddlers. 

Before  the  Revolution,  the  following  donations  were  made  to  the 
College  for  "foundations  of  scholarships":  General  Assembly ,  one 
thousand  pounds;  CoL  Ed  ward  I  Fill,  of  Shirley,  Charles  City,  one 
hundn  <1  and  (illy  pounds;  Robert  ( 'artrr.of  CWotoman,  fii'ty  pounds; 
i-ray,  widow  of  ('apt.  Thos.  Bray,  New  Kent,  two  hundred 
poim-  Kli/.aheth  Harrison,  of  Surry,  three  hundred  pounds; 

lli«-  Kev.  .James  JJlair.  live  hundred  pounds;    Philip  1/i.^h! 

:.  five  hundred  pounds.     A  ^ilt  cup  was  presented  to 
the  College  !>;.  land.     The    Karl  of  IJurlin^ton 

presented  a  portrait  of  his  anole,the  I  Ion.  Rohert  IJoyle.      h  [snow, 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  45 

with  several  other  interesting  portraits,  in  possession  of  the  College 
authorities. 

Dr.  James  Blair,  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  an  Episcopal  clergy- 
man, was  the  first  President  of  the  College.  He  was  appointed  to 
the  office  by  the  charter.  At  the  instance  of  the  Bishop  of  London, 
he  came  as  a  missionary  to  Virginia  in  1685.  He  was  appointed 
Commissary  or  Representative  of  the  Bishop  in  the  Colony  in  1689. 
With  justice,  he  may  be  considered  the  god-father  of  William  and 
Mary  College ;  for  his  exertions,  both  in  this  country  and  in  Eng- 
land, con-tributed  greatly  to  the  success  of  the  enterprise.  He  died 
in  1743,  after  having  filled  the  office  of  President  of  the  College  for 
half  a  century. 

Bishop  Meade  says  of  the  Rev.  James  Blair  :  "He  was  involved  in  difficul- 
ties with  Governors  and  clergymen,  more  or  less,  daring  almost  the  whole  pe- 
riod of  his  Commissaryship  and  Presidency  of  the  College.  I  have  the  whole 
of  these  controversies  spread  before  me  in  long  and  tedious  letters  from  him- 
self and  his  opponents,  to  the  authorities  in  England,  which  never  have  been 
published.  His  first  controversy  was  with  Governor  Andros,  who  came  to 
Virginia  under  no  good  character,  from  New  York.  By  royal  instructions, 
Andros  was  not  only  Governor  of  Virginia,  but  the  Ordinary,  the  Representa- 
tive of  the  Bishop  of  London  in  church  matters,  the  Commissary  being  com- 
paratively a  negative  character."  .  .  .  "Dr.  Blair  being  then  in  England 
about  his  College,  preferred  charges  against  him  as  an  enemy  to  religion,  to 
the  Church,  the  Clergy,  and  the  College,  bringing  proofs  of  the  same.  The 
charges  cover  thirty-two  pages  of  manuscript  and  are  well  written.  But  Blair 
had  formidable  foes  to  meet  in  London.  Governor  Andros  sends  over  in  his 
defence  Colonel  Byrd,  of  Westover ;  Mr.  Harrison,  of  Surry ;  Mr.  Povey,  a 
man  high  in  office  in  the  Colony,  and  a  Mr.  Marshall,  to  arraign  Dr.  Blah' 
himself  before  the  Bishop  of  London  and  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  Two 
days  were  spent  in  Lambeth  Palace  in  the  examination.  The  charges  and  the 
answers  are  set  down,  and  fill  up  thirty-seven  folio  pages  of  manuscript. 
Never  were  four  men  more  completely  foiled  by  one.  The  accusers  seem  to 
feel  and  acknowledge  it,  and  doubtless  wished  themselves  out  of  Lambeth 
Palace  long  before  the  trial  was  over."  ....  "The  result  of  it  all  was, 
that  Mr.  Blair  came  home  with  a  good  sum  of  money  for  his  College,  and  An- 
dros was  sent  back  to  England  to  stand  his  trial,  from  which  he  came  out 
badly." 

In  the  dedication  by  Commissary  Blah-  of  his  sermons,  published  in  1722,  he 
says  :  It  is  a  particular  felicity  of  that  country,  (Virginia,)  not  to  be  infested 
with  the  enemies  of  the  Christian  faith :  so  that  we  have  little  or  no  occasion 
in  our  sermons  to  enter  the  lists  with  Atheists,  Deists,  Arians  or  Socinians, 
nor  are  we  much  troubled  with  either  Popish  or  Protestant  Recusants ;  or  any 
of  those  unhappy  distinctions  by  which  the  Church  of  England  is  most  unfor- 
tunately subdivided  in  this  our  mother  country. 


46  HISTOKICAL  SKETCH. 

(Extract  from  Preface  to  Dr.  Blair's  Sermons,  published  in  1740.) 

"Therefore,  he  formed  a  vast  design  of  erecting  and  endowing  a  College  in 
Virginia,  at  Williamsburg,  the  Capital  of  that  country,  for  professors  and 
students  in  academical  learning.  In  order  thereto,  he  had  himself  set  on 
foot  a  voluntary  subscription,  amounting  to  a  great  sum,  and  not  content  with 
that,  he  came  over  to  England  in  the  year  1693,  to  solicit  the  affair  at  Court. 
The  good  Queen  (Queen  Mary)  was  so  well  pleased  with  the  noble  design,  that 
she  espoused  it  with  a  particular  zeal ;  and  King  William  also,  as  soon  as  he 
became  acquainted  with  its  use  and  excellency,  very  readily  concurred  with 
the  Queen  in  it." 

The  Presidents  before  the  Revolution  were  : 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Blair,  Commissary,  from 1693  to  1743 

The  Rev.  William  Dawson,  Commissary,  from 1743  to  1752 

The  Rev.  William  Stith,  D.  D.,  the  Historian,  Commissary,  from.,1752  to  1755 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Dawson,  D.  D.,  Commissary,  from 1755  to  1761 

The  Rev.  James  Horrocks,  D.  D.,  "  "     1767  to  1771 

The  Rev.  John  Camm,  D.  D.,  "  "    1771  to  1777 

When  Bishop  Madison  was  elected. 

Before  the  Revolution,  the  College  consisted  of  a  school  of  di- 
vinity, one  of  philosophy,  in  which  natural  philosophy  and  mathe- 
matics were  taught,  a  grammar  school  for  instruction  in  the  ancient 
languages,  and  an  Indian  school  supported  by  the  donation  of  the 
Hon.  Robert  Boyle,  in  which,  from  about  the  year  1700  to  1776, 
eight  to  ten  Indains  were  annually  maintained  and  educated.  Some 
of  these  Indians  came  a  distance  of  four  hundred  miles  from  the 
College. 

The  College  long  exercised  (till  1819)  the  duties  of  the  office  of 
Surveyor  General  of  the  Colony  of  Virginia;  and  among  the  sur- 
veyors appointed  by  it  were  George  Washington,  Zachary  Taylor, 
of  Orange,  the  grandfather  of  the  late  General  Taylor,  President  of 
the  United  States,  and  Thomas  Jefferson. 

For  about  seventy  years  previous  to  the  Revolution,  the  average 
number  of  students  was  about  sixty ;  from  ten  to  fifteen  of  whom 
were  received  on  the  scholarships  or  foundations.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  Revolution  the  number  was  seventy. 

Prior  to  the  Revolution,  the  annual  income  of  the  College,  from 
duties  granted  in  the  charter  ;ind  hy  the  Colony,  from  "Boyle's 
Charity,"  funded  capital  and  scholarships.  \vas  nearly  four  thousand 
pounds  sterling.  In  177».  r  College  in  North  Ainer- 

:;d  had  been  the  <-nnst:mt  recipient  of  royal,  colonial  and  pri- 
vate benefactions.  P.y  the  devolution  it  lost,  in  consequence  of  the 

depreciation  of  paper  money,  all  of  its  endowment,  save  ahout  two 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  47 

thousand  five  hundred  dollars  in  money,  and  the  then  unproduc- 
tive land  granted  by  the  English  Crown. 

It  furnished  to  the  American  Revolution  Benjamin  Harrison,  Car- 
ter Braxton,  Thomas  Nelson  and  George  Wythe,  signers  of  the 
Declaration;  Peyton  Randolph,  President  of  the  first  American  Con- 
gress; Edmund  Randolph,  Attorney  General  and  Secretary  of  State; 
John  Marshall,  Chief  Justice;  Thomas  Jefferson*  and  James  Mon- 
roe, Presidents  of  the  United  States,  and  a  host  of  others,  among 
them  John  Tyler,  Senior,  Governor  of  Virginia,  John  Taylor,  of 
Caroline,  the  Nelsons,  the  Blands,  the  Pages,  the  Harrisons,  the  Car- 
ters, the  Nicholases,  the  Braxtons,  the  Grymeses,  the  Burwells,  the 
Lewises,  the  Lyonses,  the  Mercers,  the  Cockes,  the  Boilings,  the 
Nicholsons,  the  Carringtons,  and  many  others  whose  names  are 
national  and  historic.  Thirty  students  and  three  professors  joined 
the  army  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  war. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  proceedings  of  the  faculty  shed 
light  upon  the  history  of  the  College  before  the  Revolutionary  War: 

"June  28th,  1732.— The  College  chapel  was  opened.  Mr.  President  (the 
Rev.  Mr.  Blair)  preached  on  Proverbs,  xxii :  6. 

"July  31st,  1732.— The  foundation  of  the  President's  house  at  the  College 
was  laid.  The  President,  Mr.  Dawson,  Mr.  Fry,  Mr.  Stith  (afterwards  the 
historian),  and  Mr.  Fox,  laying  the  first  five  bricks  in  order,  one  after  another. 

"At  a  meeting  of  ye  President  and  Masters  of  William  and  Mary  College, 
Seprye14th,  1752,  present, 

Ye  Rev.  Mr.  STITH,  President. 
Mr.  Dawson,  Mr.  Robinson,  Mr.  Preston,  and  Mr.  Graham. 

Ye  following  orders  were  unanimously  agreed  to  :" 

"1.  Ordered,  Y*  no  scholar  belonging  to  any  school  in  tlie  College,  of  what 
age,  rank,  or  quality  soever,  do  keep  any  race  horse  at  ye  College  in  ye  town, 
or  anywhere  in  the  neighborhood.  Y*  they  be  not  anyway  concerned  in 
making  races,  or  in  backing  or  abetting  those  made  by  others,  and  y*  all  race 
horses  kept  in  ye  neighbourhood  of  ye  College  and  belonging  to  any  of  ye  schol- 
ars, be  immediately  dispatched  and  sent  off,  and  never  again  brought  back, 
and  all  this  under  pain  of  ye  severest  animadversion  and  punishment." 

"2.  Ordered,  Y*  no  scholar  belonging  to  ye  College  of  what  age,  rank  or 
quality  soever,  or  wheresoever  residing  within  or  without  ye  College,  do  pre- 
sume to  appear  playing  or  betting  at  ye  billiard  or  other  gaming  tables,  or  be 
any  way  concerned  in  keeping  or  fighting  cocks,  under  pain  of  ye  like  severe 
animadversions  or  punishment.' 

(Signed)  WILLIAM  STITH." 

"  Jany.  ye  14,  1754.  Resolved,  Yfc  a  person  be  appointed  to  hear  such  boys 
as  shall  be  recommended  by  their  parents  or  guardians,  a  chapter  in  the  Bible 

*  Soon  after  Mr.  Jefferson's  entrance  into  College,  Dr.  William  Small  was  made  per  interim. 
Professor  of  Philosophy,  ami  Mr.  Jefferson  declared  it  was  Dr.  Small's  Instruction  and  inter- 
course that  probably  fixed  his  destinies  for  life. 


48 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 


every  school-day,  at  12  o'clock,  and  y*  he  have  ye  yearly  salary  of  one  pistole 
for  each  boy  so  recommended." 

"Aug.  29,  1754.  Resolved,  unanimously,  Y*  Mr.  Commissary  Dawson  be 
allowed  ye  use  of  ye  Hall  and  great  room  during  ye  meeting  of  ye  clergy." 

Sept.  7th,  1754.  The  College  allows  only  to  the  sick,  tea  to  be  made  and 
sent  by  the  house-keeper,  and  wine-whey." 

41  Jany.  1st,  175C.  Richard  Collhyon  was  by  them  examined,  and  is  thought 
capable  of  teaching  the  Grammar  School  at  Norfolk." 

"April  2nd,  1756.  Ys  day  Benjamin  Franklin,  Esquire,  favored  ye  society 
with  his  company,  and  had  ye  Degree  of  A.  M.  conferred  upon  him  by  ye  Rev. 
G.  Dawson.  A.  M.,  President,  to  whom  he  was  in  public  presented  by  the  Rev. 
William  Preston,  A.  M." 

44  March  24th,  1756.  Resolved,  Y*  ye  young  gentlemen,  when  they  leave  the 
Grammar  School,  shall  be  obliged  to  appear  in  academical  dress." 

44  June  26,  1761.  Resolved,  That  Mrs.  Foster  be  appointed  stocking-mender 
in  the  College,  and  that  she  be  paid  annually  the  sum  of  twelve  pounds,  pro- 
vided she  furnish  herself  with  lodging,  diet,  fire,  and  candles." 

44  March  2d,  1768.  Resolved,  that  an  advertisement  be  inserted  in  the  Ga- 
zette to  inform  the  public  that  the  College  is  now  clear  of  small-pox. 

41  June  17th,  1768.  Resolved,  that  the  sum  of  fifty  pounds  per  annum  be 
appropriated  out  of  the  College  revenue  for  the  purchase  of  medals  and  other 
honorary  rewards,  to  be  distributed  annually  by  the  president  and  masters 
amongst  such  of  the  students  as  shall  best  deserve  them  by  their  public  exami- 
nations. 

44  Sept.  4th,  1769.  Resolved  unanimously,  that  the  college-vote  for  James 
City  be  given  to  Robt.  C.  Nicholas  and  Lewis  Burwell,  Esqs. 

44April  llth,  1771.  This  day  was  received  from  the  honorable  the  president, 
and  the  other  gentlemen  appointed  to  take  care  of  Lord  Botetourt's  effects,  the 
following  extract  of  a  letter  from  his  grace  the  Duke  of  Beaufort:  4 1  under- 
stand that  his  lordship  expressed  a  desire  sometime  before  he  died  to  be  buried 
in  Virginia,  so  that  I  do  not  intend  to  remove  the  body  to  England ;  but  hope 
the  President,  &c.,  of  the  College  will  permit  me  to  erect  a  monument  near 
the  place  where  he  was  buried,  as  the  only  means  I  have  of  expressing  in  some 
degree  the  sincere  regard  and  affection  I  bore  towards  him.  And  I  flatter  my- 
self it  may  not  be  disagreeable  to  the  Virginians  to  have  this  remembrance  of 
a  person  whom  they  held  in  so  high  estimation,  and  whose  loss  they  so  greatly 
lament.'  Which  being  read,  the  application  therein  contained  received  the 
unanimous  assent  of  the  society,  who  are,  glad  of  any  opportunity  of  showing 
their  sincere  regard  to  the  memory  of  Lord  Botetourt. 

44  February  14th,  1772.  Upon  motion  mad'-  by  Mr.  .Johnson,  it  \va-  ordered 
that  tlic.  student-  in  tin-  philosophy  schools  shall  <peak  Latin  declamations  of 
their  composition,  and  that  by  t  \vo  of  them  in  rotation  tin-  exercise  shall  be 
performed  in  tin-  chapel  immediately  after  evening  service,  «-\vry  second 
Thursday  during  term-time." 

"July  ii!»th,  1772.  That  the  medal  assigned  by  his  Excellency  Lord  Botc- 
tourt,  for  the  rneoiiragrmcnt  of  <tudenN  in  philosophical  learning,  ]>••  given  to 
Mr.  Nathaniel  P,ur\\vll,  a-  bring  the  be>t  proficient.  Ke-ol\ed,  that  the  medal 
assigned  by  his  lord-hip  for  the  encouragement  of  cla-ieal  learning  be  given 
to  Mr.  Jam'-  MadUon." 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  49 

"October  14th,  1773.  Agreed,  unanimously,  that  Mr.  Thomas  Jefferson  be 
appointed  surveyor  of  Albemarle,  in  the  the  room  of  Mr.  Nicholas  Lewis,  who 
has  sent  his  letter  of  resignation,  and  that  he  be  allowed  to  have  a  deputy." 

"April,  1775.  Whereas,  we  have  received  from  the  Bursar  the  disagreeable 
news  that  His  Excellency  Lord  Dunmore  entertains  thoughts  of  resigning  the 
office  of  visitor  and  governor  of  the  College  :  Resolved  unanimously,  that  the 
President  and  Mr.  Gwatkin  do  wait  on  his  lordship  to  thank  him  most  cordially 
for  his  past  favors  to  the  College,  and  most  humbly  to  request  that  he  will 
continue  to  act  as  a  visitor  and  governor  of  the  College,  and  to  afford  his  pro- 
tection to  the  president  and  professors  as  far  as  they  shall  appear  to  him  to 
deserve  his  countenance." 

(Extract  from  the  Virginia  Gazette,  September  10th,  1736.) 
"This  evening  will  be  performed  at  the  Theatre  the  Tragedy  of  Cato ;  and 
on  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Friday,  will  be  acted  the  following  Comedies  by 
the  gentlemen  and  ladies  of  this  county,  viz  :  The  Busy  Body,  The  Recruiting 
Officer,  and  the  Beaux  Strategem." 

(Extract  from  the  Virginia  Gazette,  Aug.  15th,  1771.) 

"After  prayers  and  a  sermon  in  the  Chapel,  two  elegant  English  orations,  in 
praise  of  the  founders  and  benefactors  of  the  College,  were  pronounced  in  the 
hall  by  two  of  the  students,  Messieurs  Edmund  Randolph  and  William  Leigh, 
with  such  spirit  and  propriety  as  to  obtain  the  just  applause  of  a  numerous  and 
attentive  audience." 

(Extract  from  the  Virginia  Gazette,  December  8th,  1774.) 

CORRESPONDENCE  BETWEEN  THE  FACULTY  AND  THE  EARL  OF  DUNMORE, 

THE  GOVERNOR. 

"We,  his  Majesty's  dutiful  and  loyal  subjects,  the  President  and  Professors 
of  William  and  Mary  College,  moved  by  an  impulse  of  unfeigned  joy,  cannot 
help  congratulating  your  Excellency  on  such  a  series  of  agreeable  events  as 
the  success  of  your  enterprise  against  the  Indians,  the  addition  to  your  family 
by  the  birth  of  a  daughter,  and  your  safe  as  well  as  glorious  return  to  the  capi- 
tal of  this  Dominion.  May  the  great  fatigues  and  dangers,  which  you  so 
readily  and  cheerfully  undergo  in  the  service  of  your  Government,  be  ever 
crowned  with  victory  !  May  you  ever  find  the  public  benefits  thence  arising 
attended  with  domestic  blessings  !  And  may  you  always  feel  the  enlivening 
pleasure  of  reading  in  the  countenances  around  you,  wherever  you  turn  your 
eyes,  such  an  expression  of  affection  as  can  be  derived  only  from  applauding 
and  grateful  hearts." 

To  which  his  Excellency  was  pleased  to  return  the  following  answer: 

GENTLEMEN  : — I  cannot  but  receive  every  instance  of  the  attention  of  a 
learned  and  respectable  body,  such  as  yours,  with  a  great  degree  of  satisfac- 
tion ;  but  the  affectionate  and  very  obliging  terms  in  which  you  are  pleased  to 
express  your  good  wishes  towards  me  on  this  occasion,  demand  cordial  thanks, 
and  will  ever  be  impressed  on  my  mind." 

DUNMORE. 


50  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

(Extract  from  the  Virginia  Gazette,  1780.) 

.  .  .  "The  vacations  in  the  University  are  from  the  1st  of  April  to  the 
1st  of  May,  and  from  the  1st  of  August  to  the  10th  of  October." 

From  the  Statutes  of  the  College,  published  in  1792: 
14  Be  it  ordained,  That  the  drinking  of  spirituous  liquors  (except  in  that  mod- 
eration which  becomes  the  prudent  and  industrious  student)  be  prohibited." 

From  a  copy  of  the  Old  Laws : 

44  No  other  person  than  a  student  or  other  member  of  the  College  shall  be 
admitted  as  a  boarder  at  the  College  table.  No  liquors  shall  be  furnished  or 
used  at  table  except  beer,  cider,  toddy,  or  spirits  and  water. 

44  The  keeper  of  the  College  table  shall,  on  no  pretext  nor  for  any  considera- 
tion, furnish  or  sell  to  the  students  wine  or  any  other  spirituous  liquors,  to  be 
drunk  at  any  other  time  or  place,  than  at  their  ordinary  meals,  as  aforesaid." 

From  Weld's  Travels  :  "The  Bishop  of  Virginia  is  President  of  the  College, 
and  has  apartments  in  the  buildings.  Half  a  dozen  or  more  of  the  students, 
the  eldest  about  twelve  years  of  age,  dined  at  his  table  one  clay  while  I  was 
there ;  some  were  without  shoes  or  stockings,  others  without  coats.  During 
the  dinner,  they  constantly  rose  to  help  themselves  at  the  sideboard.  A  cou- 
ple of  dishes  of  salted  meat  and  some  oyster  soup  formed  the  above  dinner. 
I  only  mention  this,  as  it  may  convey  some  idea  of  American  colleges  and 
American  dignitaries."  [The  date  of  the  preface  to  Weld's  Travels  is  Decem- 
ber 20th,  1798.] 

(Extract  from  the  proceedings  of  the  Visitors,  Sept.  1st,  17G9.) 
44  The  Visitation  being  informed  that  the  Rev'd  Mr.  John  Canrm,  Professor 
of  Divinity,  and  the  Rev'd  Mr.  Josiah  Johnson,  Master  of  the  Grammar  School, 
have  lately  married  and  taken  up  their  residence  in  the  city  of  Williamsbnrg, 
by  which  great  inconvenience  has  arisen  to  the  College  and  the  necessary  at- 
tention which  those  Professors  ought  to  pay  to  the  conduct  and  behaviour  of 
the  students  and  scholars  has  been  almost  totally  interrupted  : 

Resolved,  That  it  is  the  opinion  of  this  Visitation  that  the  Professors  and 
their  engaging  in  marriage  and  the  concerns  of  a  private  family,  and 
shifting  their  resilience  to  any  place  without  the  College,  is  contrary  to  the 
principles  on  which  the  College  was  founded,  and  their  dn»y  as  I'rotV-^nrs." 

(Extract  from  same,  Dec.  Uth,  17G9.) 

"  Resolved,  That  all  I'n.fr-sors  and    Ma-ters   hereafter  to  be  appointed,  be, 
lantly  resident  Of  V*  College,  and    upon  the  marriage  of  such  Professor  or 

,  that  his  l'r.»fr>-i»r~|iij»  be  immediately  vaulted.'1 

n  this  country  of  the  Phi    I',  f.i    K:ip|>:i  was 
'     \\'il!i:iin   and    Mary  ( 'nllrgt;    the    f>lh    PrrrinlxT,  17~l>. 
TJ 10  first  ni'Ttii  .1.1    in   the  Apollo    I  Inll  of  the  old    II:il- 

taveri-  of  Willi..  (lie  room  in  which  the  first  revolutionary 


HISTORICAL,  SKETCH.      .  51 

spirit  of  Virginia  was  breathed  in  the  burning  words  of  Henry.  The 
original  charter  of  this  society  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the  His- 
torical Society  of  this  State. 

When  the  College  broke  up  in  1781,  the  records  of  the  Society 
were  sealed  up  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  College  Steward,  and 
subsequently  they  came  into  the  possession  of  the  Historical  Society 
of  Virginia.  On  examination  in  1850,  it  was  found  that  one  of  the 
old  members,  William  Short,  of  Philadelphia,  still  survived.  It 
was  also  discovered  that  he  was  President  of  the  Society  when  it 
was  interrupted.  Measures  were  immediately  taken  to  revive  it  in 
the  College  with  Mr.  Short  as  the  connecting  link  with  the  original 
Society.  This  was  done,  and  it  is  now  in  operation. 

The  names  of  the  original  members  of  this  Society  are : 

John  Heath,  Thomas  Smith,  Richard  Booker, 

1  Armistead  Smith,  John  Jones,  Daniel  Fitzhugh, 

John  Stuart,  John  Starke,  Theodore  Fitzhugh, 

Isaac  Hill,  William  Short,  John  Morrison, 

Henry  Hill,  John  Allen,  George  Braxton, 

Thomas  Hall,  John  Nivison,  Hartwell  Cocke, 

Samuel  Hardy,  John  Brown,  Archibald  Stewart, 

D.  C.  Brent,  Thomas  Clements,         Thomas  W.  Ballandine, 

Spencer  Roane,  John  Moore,  William  Stith, 

William  Stuart,  J.  J.  Beckley,  Thomas  Savage, 

John  Page,  William  Cabell,  John  Marshall, 

Landon  Cabell,  Thomas  Lee,  Bushrod  Washington, 

William  Madison,  W.  Pierce,  Richard  B.  Lee, 

John  Swann,  Thomas  Cocke,  Paxton  Bowdoin, 
Alexander  Mason.                                               (Grigsbifs  Convention,  1776.) 

In  1781  the  exercises  of  the  College  were  suspended,  and  the 
buildings  were  alternately  occupied  the  summer  before  the  memo- 
rable siege  of  Yorktown  by  the  British  and  the  French  and  Ameri- 
can troops.  Whilst  occupied  by  the  latter,  the  College  was  injured 
and  the  President's  house  destroyed  by  fire.  This  was  subsequently 
rebuilt  at  the  expense  of  the  French  government.  It  does  not  ap- 
pear how  long  the  College  was  closed — probably  the  exercises  were 
suspended  not  more  than  a  year.  In  1790  there  was  a  respectable 
number  of  students. 

After  the  Revolution  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia  gave  to 
the  College  the  Palace  lands  and  the  houses  upon  them,  a  tract  of 
land  near  Williamsburg  known  as  the  "Vineyard,"  and  a  few  acres 
not  far  from  Jamestown.  The  organization  of  the  College  was  now 
changed.  Mr.  Jefferson,  in  his  Autobiography,  says :  "  On  the  1st  of 
June,  1779,  I  was  appointed  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth,  and 


52  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

retired  from  the  Legislature.  Being  elected  also  one  of  the  Visitors 
of  William  and  Mary  College,  a  self-electing  body,  I  effected,  during 
my  residence  in  Williamsburg  that  year,  a  change  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  that  institution,  by  abolishing  the  Grammar  School  and  the 
two  Professorships  of  Divinity  and  Oriental  Languages,  and  substi- 
tuting a  Professorship  of  Law  and  Police,  one  of  Anatomy,  Medi- 
cine and  Chemistry,  and  one  of  Modern  Languages ;  and  the  charter 
confining  us  to  six  professors,  we  added  the  Law  of  Nature  and 
Nations,  and  the  Fine  Arts,  to  the  duties  of  the  moral  professor, 
and  Natural  History  to  those  of  the  professor  of  Mathematics  and 
Natural  Philosophy."  The  Indian  school  was  abandoned  in  conse- 
quence of  the  loss  of  the  manor  of  Brafferton  by  the  Revolution. 

In  1788,  George  Washington  was  made  Chancellor  of  the  College. 
His  letter  of  acceptance  is  as  follows : 

MOUNT  VEBNON,  April  3Wh,  1788. 
DEAR  SIR  : 

I  am  now  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter  of  the  15th  instant,  in 
which  you  did  me  the  favor  to  enclose  an  extract  from  the  original  statute 
designating  the  duties  of  the  office  to  which  I  had  been  appointed. 

Influenced  by  a  heartfelt  desire  to  promote  the  cause  of  science  in  general 
and  the  College  of  William  and  Mary  in  particular,  I  accept  the  office  of  Chan- 
cellor of  the  same,  and  request  you  will  be  pleased  to  give  official  notice 
thereof  to  the  learned  bodj^  who  have  thought  proper  to  honor  me  with  the 
appointment. 

I  confide  fully  in  their  strenuous  endeavors  for  placing  the  system  of  educa- 
tion on  such  a  basis  as  will  render  it  most  beneficial  to  the  State  and  the  re- 
public of  letters,  as  well  as  to  the  more  extensive  interests  of  humanity  and 
religion.  In  return,  they  will  do  me  the  justice  to  believe  that  I  shall  not  be 
tardy  in  giving  my  cheerful  concurrence  to  such  measures  as  may  be  best  cal- 
culated for  the  attainment  of  those  desirable  and  important  objects. 

For  the  expressions  of  politeness  and  friendship  blended  with  your  commu- 
nication, I  pray  you  to  receive  my  best  ackixwlrd^nu -nts.     With  sentiment* 
of  the  highest  esteem  and  regard, 
I  am,  dear  sir, 

Your  obedient  and  very  humble  servant, 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 

SAMUEL  GRIFFIN,  ESQ., 

Hector  of  the  College  of  William  and  Man/. 

Notwithstanding  the  depressed  and  impoverished  condition  of  the 
College  at  the  termination  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  it  .^peedily  re- 
vived under  the  guidance  and  teachings  of  P.ishop  Madison  and  his 
associates,  and  sent  forth  .John  Tyler,  President  of  the  I' nited  States, 
Littleton  Waller  Ta/.ewell,  William  II.  (Jiles,  John  Randolph,  Spen- 
cer Roane,  liushrod  Washington,  James  r.reekinridge,  Archibald 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  53 

Stewart,  William  Brockenborough,  James  P.  Preston,  Robert  Stan- 
ard,  William  H.  Roane,  Robert  B.  Taylor,  George  M.  Bibb,  William 
T.  Barry,  William  H.  Fitzhugh,  Philip  P.  Barbour,  Benjamin  Wat- 
kins  Leigh,  William  H.  Cabell,  Chapman  Johnson,  Briscoe  G.  Bald- 
win, Roger  Jones,  George  Croghan,  H.  St.  George  Tucker,  John 
Tayloe  Lomax,  John  Nelson,  William  S.  Archer,  John  J.  Crittenden, 
John  H.  Cocke,  Powhatan  Ellis,  Winfield  Scott,  William  C*  Rives, 
and  many  others  of  like  renown  to  National  and  State  service. 

Since  1835,  say  twenty-five  years  of  its  active  existence  (within 
this  time  its  exercises  have  been  for  five  years  suspended),  the  Col- 
lege matriculation  books  show  an  average  of  seventy-five  students 
who  have  drunk  at  the  fountains  of  philosophy,  literature  and 
science  under  the  direction  of  the  late  Thomas  R.  Dew,  the  late 
Judge  N.  Beverly  Tucker,  the  Right  Rev.  John  Johns,  Bishop  of 
Virginia,  and  their  co-laborers  and  successors,  and  who  have  proved 
themselves  in  every  way  worthy  of  their  predecessors,  and,  in  nu- 
merous cases,  filled  important  offices  in  church  and  State.  During 
the  late  civil  war,  William  and  Mary  followed  the  fortunes  of  Vir- 
ginia. Ninety  per  cent,  of  the  students  at  College  when  the  war 
began,  entered  the  State  service.  A  large  number  of  the  alumni 
held  important  civil  and  military  positions  while  the  unhappy  con- 
test was  raging.  Some  of  these,  of  the  highest  promise  and  the 
fairest  prospects,  distinguished  for  learning  and  genius,  sealed  their 
devotion  to  their  State  with  their  blood.  With  those  who  have  gone 
before  them,  they  have  illustrated  Virginia's  fame  in  nearly  every 
important  American  battle  and  siege,  from  the  defeat  of  Braddock 
to  the  surrender  at  Appomattox,  by  their  heroic  valor. 

Bishop  Meade,  in  his  "Old  Churches,"  &c.,  says,  after  speaking  of  Bishop 
Madison,  and  of  his  filling,  till  he  died  in  1812,  the  Presidency  of  the  College, 
that  he  was  succeeded,  after  the  interval  of  a  year,  by  Dr.  John  Augustine 
Smith,  a  Virginian,  who  being  "conscious  that  the  aid  of  heaven,  through  his 
church  and  ministry,  ought  to  be  had  in  order  to  success,  therefore  petitioned 
the  now  reviving  Episcopal  Church  of  Virginia  to  establish  a  Professorship  of 
Divinity  in  the  College."  The  Eev.  Dr.  Keith  was  soon  after  sent  for  that 
pftrpose  and  made  the  experiment,  which  did  not  succeed.  Dr.  Smith  met 
with  a  good  degree  of  success,  but  did  not  remain  longer  than  1826.  He  was 
succeeded  by  the  Kev.  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Wilmer,  who  discharged  his  duties  "with 
zeal  and  fidelity  and  with  considerable  success  for  one  year,  at  the  end  of 
which  he  died,  deeply  lamented  by  all  the  friends  of  the  church  and  College." 
The  Kev.  Dr.  Empie  succeeded  Dr.  Wilmer,  and  remained  eight  or  nine  years, 
when  his  place  was  filled  by  "Mr.  Thomas  K.  Dew,  a  Virginia  gentleman,  a 
graduate  of  the  College,  and  a  scholar.  His  amiable  disposition,  fine  talents, 
tact  at  management,  great  zeal  and  unwearied  assiduity  were  the  means  of 
raising  the  College  to  as  great  prosperity  as  had  ever  been  its  lot,  notwith- 


54  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

standing  many  opposing  difficulties.  To  this  we  must  make  one  exception, 
viz  :  as  to  the  classical  and  mathematical  departments,  under  some  of  the  old 
and  ripe  scholars  from  England,  before  the  Kevolutiou." 

"Mr.  Dew  having  been  arrested  by  death  in  a  foreign  land  in  1846,"  the 
College  was  left  for  that  year  and  the  next  in  charge  of  Professor  Robert  Saun- 
ders.  The  next  year,  Mr.  Sannders  having  resigned,  the  College  was  placed 
under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Benjamin  S.  Ewell,  when,  by  an  arrangement  with 
the  Episcopal  Church,  "Bishop  Johns  was  called  to  the  Presidency,  which  he 
retained  till  1854."  His  services  were  most  valuable,  restoring  the  College 
from  a  seemingly  hopeless  condition  to  a  state  of  prosperity. 

On  the  night  of  the  8th  February,  1859,  at  a  time  when  the  alurnni 
of  the  College  were  on  the  eve  of  celebrating  the  166th  anniversary 
of  its  foundation,  the  College  building,  with  most  of  its  interesting 
antiquities,  was  destroyed  by  accidental  fire. 

The  following  account  of  the  fire  of  1859  is  extracted  from  the 
notes  of  the  late  Professor  Robert  J.  Morrison,  who  lived  at  the  time 
in  part  of  the  President's  house : 

"About  two  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  eighth  of  February,  1859,  I  was 
aroused  from  sleep  by  the  cry  that  the  College  was  on  fire.  T  sprang  from  my 
bed  and  saw  the  light  streaming  in  through  the  windows  of  the  President's 
house.  I  raised  a  window,  looked  towards  the  College,  and  saw  large  volumes 
of  flame  issuing  from  two  windows  on  the  north  side  of  the  north  wing. 

"  It  was  evident  that  the  laboratory  and  the  library  were  in  an  advanced 
conflagration.  I  threw  on  my  clothes  in  great  haste,  and  rushed  towards  the 
scene.  Upon  opening  the  front  door  of  the  President's  house,  I  was  struck 
with  the  terrific  roar  of  the  flames,  which  was  unusually  great  for  such  a  fire. 
This  was  probobly  caused  by  the  burning  of  the  books.  I  had  not  reached  the 
College  when  I  met  President  Ewell,  who  had  just  returned  from  the  second 
floor  of  the  building,  where  he  had  been  to  rescue  the  students  who  were  sleep- 
ing in  the  dormitories.  All  the  students  were  fortunately  saved,  though  seve- 
ral of  them  for  a  short  time  were  in  peril.  Three  or  four  of  them  lost  their 
effects.  I  urged  Mr.  Ewell,  who  was  not  half  dressed,  to  go  to  his  chamber 
for  warmer  clothing,  as  the  weather  was  cold  and  damp,  but  he  said,  "I  must 
first  go  with  him  to  the  basement  under  the  laboratory  to  discover,  if  possible, 
the  origin  of  the  lire.''  (Mr.  Morrison  came  to  the  conclusion  that  the  lire 
originated  in  the,  laboratory.  This  was  not  accepted  as  the  cau-e.  A  negro 
man  was  cutting  wood  in  the  cellar,  just  under  the  laboratory,  the  night  befoj-e 
by  the  light  of  a  eandle,  and  it  was  his  rarele^m-ss  thai  produced  the  confla- 
gration; SO  it  \V:i-  believed.) 

"Soon   MIC  eiti/ens  of  Wil]iam<hiirg  Hocked  to  the  sad  scene.     Ladies  and 

gentlemen  were  -il'-nt .  -OITOU  ful  <pcci:it«>r~  of  the  ravage-  of  I  he  tlames.      Any 

attempt  to  ~l.iv  their  progiv-^  would  have  heen  vain.     The  ivronls  ,,f  the  Col- 

LVed,  M  \\'  11  a>  the  old  portraits  that  hung  in  the  I'.lue  Koom.     The 

Ht    ,-aved   tin-  ('(dlege  seal.     Some  of  t  he  f  unfit  nre  and    the   lihrary  of 

Mi--    I'hilomathean   Sneieiy   uere  also  saved.      Kverything   in    the  eh.ipel   w;i* 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  55 

burnt.    The  mural  tablets,  relics  of  a  past  era,  crumbled  under  the  influence 
of  the  heat. 

(Signed)  "  KOBT.  J.  MORRISON." 

THE  COLLEGE  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MARY,  \ 
February  I2th,  1859.     J 

Extract  from  a  letter  from  Colonel  St.  George  Tucker,  who  was 
appointed  to  recite  a  poem  at  the  celebration  of  the  166th  anniver- 
sary of  the  foundation  of  the  College,  dated 

FEBRUARY  OTH,  1859. 
MY  DEAR  MORRISON  : 

I  have  just  seen  the  fatal  announcement  of  the  loss  of  old  William  and  Mary. 
I  feel  more  than  I  can  express  at  such  an  awful  catastrophe.  At  any  time  the 
destruction  of  almost  the  only  link  which  binds  Virginia  to  her  golden  age, 
would  have  awakened  emotions  of  the  deepest  sorrow ;  but  more  particularly 
now,  as  I  have  been  fully  identifying  myself  with  her  destiny,  and  projecting 
myself  into  her  early  history,  does  the  deepest  regret  penetrate  my  soul.  .  . 

Among  the  coincidences  connected  with  the  fire  I  find,  by  reference,  to  the 
Dispatch,  that  it  occurred  on  the  same  night  and  within  an  hour  after  I  had 
finished  my  address. 

The  library,  containing  many  curious  and  rare  books,  with  some 
manuscripts,  chiefly  presented  by  kings,  archbishops,  bishops  and 
governors,  and  the  cabinet  of  apparatus  in  which  were  instruments 
more  than  a  century  old,  the  gift  of  the  Colonial  House  of  Burgesses, 
were  consumed.  The  mural  tablets  in  the  chapel  to  the  memories 
of  Sir  John  Eandolph  and  Bishop  Madison  were  also  destroyed. 
Notwithstanding  this  terrible  disaster  the  celebration  took  place. 
The  following  is  part  of  an  eloquent  address  delivered  on  that  inte- 
resting occasion  by  a  most  distinguished  and  honored  alumnus — 
the  late  ex-President  Tyler — at  the  time  of  his  death  Chancellor  of 
the  Institution: 

Like  an  aged  Nestor,  that  building  has  stood  until  within  a  few  days  past, 
amid  civil  convulsions  which  have  shaken  continents.  At  the  time  of  its  erec- 
tion, it  looked  out  upon  a  country  in  the  early  infancy  of  settlement,  contain- 
ing a  population  in  all  the  English  colonies  which  was  not  greater  than  that 
which  at  this  day  is  found  in  the  smallest  State  of  the  Union.  It  beheld  that 
population  expanding  over  regions  bounded  by  the  two  great  oceans,  to  be 
counted  by  millions  in  place  of  the  scattered  thousands  of  that  early  day.  It 
has  seen  the  colonies  shake  off  the  badges  of  puberty,  and  put  on  the  toga 
virilis.  It  saw  the  Congress  before  and  after  it  had  assembled  under  the  Ar- 
ticles of  Confederation,  and  those  articles  substituted  by  the  Constitution  un- 
der which  it  is  now  our  happiness  to  live.  It  re-echoed  the  words  of  the  forest- 
born  Demosthenes  in  1765,  asserting  the  rights  of  America  to  be  "  Natural, 
Constitutional  and  Chartered,"  and  in  thunder-tones  at  an  after  day,  its  walls 
resounded  to  the  words  u  Liberty  or  Death,"  uttered  by  the  same  eloquent 


56  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

lips.  Itself  an  offspring  of  the  Revolution  of  1688,  its  sons  were  the  warm  and 
enthusiastic  advocates  of  that  of  1776. 

Under  the  influence  of  its  teachings,  its  students  threw  aside  for  a  season 
their  volumes,  and  girded  on  the  sword  to  do  battle  in  the  great  cause  of 
liberty. 

The  calm  and  silver-toned  voice  of  philosophy  heard  within  its  walls,  has 
been  oftimes  hushed  by  the  clangor  of  drums  and  trumpets. 

At  one  time  it  gave  reluctant  shelter  to  the  British  troops  as  they  passed  on 
to  Yorktown,*  and  soon  after  its  gates  were  opened  wide  to  give  willing  and 
exultant  reception  to  the  troops  with  their  tattered  banners  which  followed 
Cornwallis  to  his  last  retreat. 

Its  walls  were  alternately  shaken  by  the  thunder  of  the  cannon  at  Yorktown, 
and  by  the  triumphant  shouts  of  the  noble  bands  who  had  fought  and  con- 
quered in  the  name  of  American  independence. 

The  boy  had  gone  fourth  with  the  surveyor's  staff,  which  it  had  placed  in 
his  hands,  into  the  wilderness  of  the  west,  and  now  returned  the  hero  and  the 
conqueror,  and  once  more  stood  within  its  walls,  surrounded  by  the  chivalry 
of  France  and  America,  wearing  on  his  brow  imperishable  laurels,  and  making 
the  name  of  Washington  foremost  on  the  rolls  of  fame. 

If  her  catalogue  closed  with  the  names  of  those  who  belong  to  the  dead  gen- 
erations, might  not  William  and  Mary  take  her  place  among  her  sister  Univer- 
sities proudly  and  rightfully  ?  But  it  bears  the  names  of  men  of  living  gene- 
rations who  add  to  her  renown.  In  the  various  pursuits  of  life  they  perform 
well  their  several  parts.  The  pulpit,  from  which  are  uttered  those  great  truths 
so  essential  for  time  and  eternity,  resounds  with  their  eloquence ;  while  oil 
the  bench  of  justice,  at  the  legal  forum,  in  the  State  Legislatures,  in  the 
National  Councils,  in  the  active  marts  of  commerce,  in  the  pursuits  of  agri- 
culture, in  the  tented  camps,  their  names  are  honored,  their  attainments  re- 
spected, and  then-  opinions  and  examples  quoted  and  followed. 

The  following  is  extracted  from  a  report  made  to  the  Faculty  of 
William  and  Mary  at  a  meeting  on  the  8th  February,  1860,  one  year 
after  its  destruction  by  fire,  on  the  general  condition  of  the  College : 

The  new  College  edifice  has  been  completed  and  fully  furnished.  On  the 
llth  October,  1859,  the  capstone  of  the  building  was  laid  by  the  <Irund  Lodge 
of  Virginia,  and  the  College  exercises  have  hern  conducted  in  if  without  inter- 
ruption from  the  beginning  of  the,  present  session.  The  buildings  arc  in  every 
way  suitable,  and  in  an  eminent  degree  convenient  and  comfortable.  The 
lecture  room-  are  fnmMied  with  all  the  appliance*  for  illustration  in  the  - 
ral  department- of  in-t ruction.  The  Philosophical  apparatus  i~  very  complete- 
The  \\alN  of  the  leetnre  rooms  of  Natural  Science  are  hung  with  valuable  pio 
toral  diagrams.  The  depart  m<-nt  of  ehemi-t  ry  i<  well  provided  \\  illi  chemical* 
and  in-tnmiciits  for  experiment  and  re-eareh.  The  lecture  room  of  history 

•  During  tli.-  IJ.-VMliitloimr.v  war  111.-  IVnln  :-.-••  tliiirs  at  l.-ast,  In  tli. 

Unit:  M  I..-IMK  l.-.l  i.y  .\rm>l«l.     Th.-r  e.'.-ninits  in  iln-  vicinity 

Of  W  -.     Si.  far  a.  !•  kmOWU,  tfe«  College,  e»ttblJ  'i.lmvr.l  l>.\   |-:n-ii,|i  l.o- 

nlflcon.-c,  with  its  pn.p.-riy,  liiHmlitiK  tin-  library,  the  gift  of  English  "KiiiKH,  I.«>r.ls  uii-l  Com- 
was  KcnipuloiMy  n--[.«  rtfl. 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  57 

has  been  provided  with  a  full  set  of  the  most  valuable  mural  maps,  geograph- 
ical and  historical,  on  the  largest  scale,  and  of  the  most  accurate  construction. 

The  literary  societies  of  the  College  have  been  provided  with  large  and 
handsome  halls,  which  are  furnished  in  the  most  comfortable  manner.  To 
each  of  these  is  attached  an  apartment  for  library  and  reading  room. 

The  chapel  has  been  restored,  and  the  remains  of  its  illustrious  dead  still 
lie  undisturbed  within  its  walls. 

The  library  has  been  conveniently  arid  handsomely  furnished  with  cases  for 
books,  and  already  contains  about  six  thousand  volumes,  obtained  partly  by 
purchase  and  partly  by  the  donations  of  public  spirited  individuals. 

Thus,  within  one  year,  the  losses  by  the  fire  of  February  8th,  1859,  have,  in 
every  material  point  of  view,  been  completely  restored ;  and  in  all  the  essen- 
tials of  its  building,  furniture,  apparatus  and  library,  the  College  is  now  in  a 
better  condition  than  it  was  on  that  day. 

In  addition,  it  may  be  stated  that  the  funds  were  ample  to  sustain 
a  full  faculty,  and  the  prospects  for  the  future  in  every  way  encour- 
aging. 

"  No  *chancellor  seems  to  have  been  appointed  from  the  death  of 
George  Washington  until  1859,  when  Ex-President  John  Tyler,  of 
Charles  City,  was  appointed ;  and  to  the  day  of  his  death  he  felt  as 
honored  in  succeeding  George  Washington  in  that  office  as  he  did 
in  the  Presidency  of  the  United  States.  The  Visitors  named  in  the 
charter  were  gentlemen  of  the  highest  rank  in  seventeen  counties  and 
of  the  capital  in  the  colony,  and  two  of  them  in  London.  Those  of 
1723  were  such  as  Alexander  Spottswood,  Governor  of  the  colony  • 
and  Robert  Carter,  of  Corotoman,  Secretary  of  the  Council,  and  their 
peers.  Those  of  1758,  such  as  the  Hon.  John  Blair,  President  of  the 
Council;  Hon.  William  Nelson,  and  Hon.  Thomas  Nelson,  also  Presi- 
dents of  the  Council;  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  Peyton 
Randolph,  Gent.,  of  Williamsburg ;  Richard  Bland,  Treasurer  and 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  From  1761  to  1763,  such  as 
Hon.  Francis  Fauquier,  Governor  William  Robinson,  Commissary ; 
Robert  Carter  Nicholas,  Treasurer  of  the  colony,  and  George  Wythe, 
of  Williamsburg.  Visitors  elected  after  1763,  such  as  Right  Hon^ 
N.  Berkeley,  Governor  of  the  colony ;  Edward  Page,  Jr.,  of  Rose- 
well,  Governor  of  Virginia;  Right  Hon.  John,  Earl  of  Dunmore, 
Governor  of  the  colony;  Benj.  Berkeley  Harrison,  of  Berkeley, 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  father  of  President  Wm. 
H.  Harrison ;  Edmund  Randolph  General  Thomas  Nelson,  Gover- 
nor of  Virginia ;  Thomas  Jefferson,  President  of  the  United  States ; 
James  Madison,  President  of  the  United  States;  John  Marshall,, 
Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States ;  Henry  Lee,  of  Westmoreland ; 

*From  "  Seven  Decades  of  the  Union."    By  General  H.  A.  Wise. 


58  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

Littleton  Waller  Tazewell,  Wilson  Miles  Gary,  John  Tyler,  Sr., 
William  Wirt;  John  Tyler,  Jr.,  President  of  the  United  States;  Rt. 
Rev.  J.  S.  Ravenscroft,  Robert  Standard,  Sr.,  James  M.  Garnett, 
Robert  B.  Taylor,  Edmund  Ruffin,  Abel  P.  Upshur,  George  Loyall, 
William  C.  Goode,  John  S.  Millson,  James  Lyons,  Rt.  Rev.  AVilliam 
Meade,  William  W.  Crump,  Tazewell  Taylor,  Rt.  Rev.  John  Johns, 
Hugh  Blair  Grigsby."  (Last,  but  not  least,  General  H.  A.  Wise. — 
Editor.) 

"  In  1859,  Ex-President  John  Tyler  was  chancellor  and  rector, 
and  in  July,  1871,  the  Hon.  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  the  gentleman, 
scholar,  and  eloquent  writer  and  orator,  of  the  blood  of  James  Blair, 
the  first  president  of  the  College,  was  elected  unanimously  chan- 
cellor, and  the  Hon.  James  Lyons,  the  eminet  lawyer  and  citizen  of 
Richmond,  was  elected  unanimously  rector  of  the  College,  to  suc- 
ceed another  eminent  rector,  the  Hon.  William  H.  Macfarland,  who 
had  removed  out  of  the  Commonwealth.  The  very  Bursars  of  the 
College  have  ever  been  gentlemen  of  the  most  favorable  standing, 
and  the  President  and  Professors  such  men  as  James  Blair,  D.  D., 
William  Stith,  the  Historian,  Rt.  Rev.  James  Madison,  Dr.  John 
Augustine  Smith,  Rev.  William  H.  Wilmer,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Adam  P. 
Empie,  D.  D.,  Thomas  R.  Dew,  Esq.,  Robert  Saunders,  Rt.  Rev. 
John  Johns,  Benj.  S.  Ewell,  George  Wythe,  one  of  the  signers  of  the* 
Declaration  of  Independence,  St.  Geo.  Tucker,  Judge  James  Semple, 
Judge  N.  Bev.  Tucker,  Judge  George  P.  Scarburgh,  Rev.  Charles 
Minnegerode,  William  B.  Rogers,  and  Dr.  John  Millington. 

A  College  thus  organized  and  instructed  by  such  men  could  not 
but  yield  the  rarest  and  richest  Alumni.  Before  the  Revolution 
there  was  a  long  succession  of  the  most  eminent  Colonial  men,  who 
were  proud  to  be  called  her  sons ;  and  since,  her  brood  has  been 
multiplied  fourfold  without  loss  of  grade.  About  four  hundred 
different  names  on  her  rolls  have  been  put  upon  the  rolls  of  dis- 
tinction, and  many  on  the  heights  of  eminence,  by  her  teaching  and 
training.  Not  only  was  her  teaching  after  the  Oxford  order  of  the 
Humanities,  but  her  training  was  that  of  the  most  refined  and 
urbane  manner.  Williamsburg  was  the  site  of  the  Vice  Royal 
Palace,  and  her  court  was  far  more  moral  than  that  of  Charles  II., 
arid  quite  as  ornate  in  manners.  Tin-  breeding  and  cultivation  were 
of  the  old  regime  of  Knights,  under  the  guidance  of  tin-  Episcopal 
clergy;  and  to  this  day  there  is  a  marked  superiority  of  addrew 
amonLr  tin.-  old  families,  and  old  servants  even,  of  Williamsburg  over 
any  other  people  of  town  or  country,  in  Virginia.  She  is  HO  re- 
tired and  ancient  that  u  Young  America"  and  inod.-m  manners 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  59 

have  not  yet  fully  abashed  her  gentle,  soft  and  polished  politeness 
as  elsewhere — almost  everywhere  in  the  land.  It  is,  and  ever  wasi 
one  of  the  chief  attractions  of  the  sons  of  gentlemen  to  her  halls  of 
learning  and  houses  of  hospitality.  No  man  of  his  day  more  kept 
up  that  "ancien  regime"  than  John  Tyler — plain,  genial,  polished, 
kind,  gentle,  affable — young  men  were  his  proteges  and  pets — and 
he  was  one  of  their  best  models. 

"  A  part  of  the  great  good  he  did  for  his  Alma  Mater  was  to  pro- 
tect her  corporate  franchise.  When  many  erroneously  urged  that 
William  and  Mary  was  part  of  the  'establishment' — yea,  was  the 
very  'red  shawl  of  the  Babylonish  woman' — and  were  for  depriving 
her  of  her  charter,  claiming  that  she  was  a  State  or  public  po- 
litical institution,  and  might  be  abolished,  Mr.  Tyler  nobly  stood 
among  others  by  her  side,  and  maintained  that  though  she  had 
a  Burgess  in  the  Grand  Assembly,  and  was  represented  as  a 
municipal  corporation  in  the  Convention  even  which  formed  the 
State  Constitution  which  excluded  her  for  the  first  time  from 
representation  in  the  Legislature,  yet  she  was  founded  on  pri- 
vate subscription  mainly,  and  stood  safely  on  the  ground  taken  by 
Mr.  Webster  in  the  case  of  Dartmouth  College.  There  she  has  stood, 
and  still  stands,  unassailable;  and  it  would  be  sacrilege  to  question 
her  corporate  rights  now,  after  giving  twenty-seven  of  her  students 
to  the  achievement  of  American  independence,  among  whom  were 
a  Boiling,  a  Burwell,  a  Byrd,  two  Carters,  a  Claiborne,  a  Cooke,  a 
Cocke,  a  Dade,  a  Digges,  an  Eggleston,  an  Evans,  a  Harrison,  a 
Mercer,  a  Monroe,  a  Nelson,  a  Nicholson,  two  Pages,  four  Randolphs, 
a  Roberts,  a  Saunders,  G.  Smith,  and  Dr.  James  Lyons  (father  of 
James  Lyons) — names  forever  to  be  cherished.  Besides  her  long 
roll  of  most  eminent  divines,  lawyers  and  physicians  in  private  life, 
she  has  given  to  the  country  two  eminent  Attorney  Generals  of  the 
United  States;  to  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Congress  of 
the  United  States  nearly  twenty  members,  and  to  the  Senate  of  the- 
United  States  fifteen  Senators ;  to  Virginia  and  other  States  seven- 
teen Governors ;  to  the  country  one  historian  and  numberless  emi- 
nent writers  ;  to  the  State  and  the  United  States  thirty-seven  judges  ; 
to  the  Revolution  twenty-seven  of  her  sons;  to  the  army  of  the 
United  States  a  lieutenant-general  and  a  score  of  principal  and  sub- 
ordinate officers ;  to  the  United  States  navy  a  list  of  Paladins  of  the 
sea,  headed  by  Warrington  and  Thomas  Ap.  Catesby  Jones ;  to  the 
Colleges  and  University  twelve  professors ;  to  the  nation  three  Pre- 
sidents— Jefferson,  Monroe,  and  John  Tyler;  to  Independence  four 
signers  of  its  Declaration ;  to  the  first  American  Congress  its  Presi- 


60  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

dent;  to  the  Federal  judiciary  the  most  eminent  Chief  Justice, 
John  Marshall ;  to  the  Federal  Executive  seven  Cabinet  officers,  and 
to  the  convention  which  framed  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  Edmund  Randolph,  its  chief  author  and  draftsman.  In  all 
she  has  given  to  her  country  more  than  two  hundred  heroes  and 
sages  who  have  been  pre-eminently  distinguished  in  public  service 
and  place.  These  are  wonderful  facts,  and  their  number  and  value, 
compared  with  the  number  of  alumni,  show  her  to  be  first  in  fruits, 
if  not  first  in  time,  compared  with  any  other  College  in  America. 
Counting  her  time  from  1693  to  the  present  day  (1871),"  the  period 
of  her  existence  is  one  hundred  and  seventy-eight  years  ;  from  1661, 
two  hundred  and  ten  years ;  in  a  word,  for  about  two  hundred  years 
she  has  for  and  during  the  period  of  her  existence  yielded  to  her 
State  and  country,  to  mankind  and  the  world,  more  than  one  jewel 
of  the  first  water  per  annum  of  inestimable  value.  Who  would  see 
that  fountain  of  truth,  of  light,  of  honor,  of  law  and  liberty  fail  ? 

"  John  Tyler,  ex-President  of  the  United  States,  was  devoted  to  the 
task  of  keeping  her  full  up  to  the  mark  of  her  memories  of  the  past, 
and  of  her  high  calling  for  the  future ;  and  the  Congress  of  the 
United 'States  will,  doubtless,  at  its  next  session  repair  liberally  all 
the  damages  done  by  civil  war  to  her  venerable  walls  and  to  her 
precious  paraphernalia  and  archives." 

Early  in  May,  1861,  the  actual  existence  of  war  at  its  very  thresh- 
old rendered  it  necessary  to  suspend  the  College  exercises  and  to- 

NOTE.— The  following  is  from  a  speech  of  the  Hon.  George  F.  Hoar,  M.  C.,  from  Massachu- 
setts, in  support  of  a  bill  before  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  for  the  relief  of  the  College 
because  of  its  losses  during  the  civil  war: 

"  To  spare,  and  if  possible  to  protect,  institutions  of  learning,  is  an  obligation  which  the 
most  civilized  nations  impose  on  themselves.  Whenever,  by  accident  or  design,  these  insti- 
tutions have  been  Injured  in  war,  such  governments  desire,  if  possible,  to  make  reparation. 
History  contains  many  conspicuous  and  interesting  examples  of  this  generous  recognition. 
....  In  her  bloodiest  and  angriest  civil  strifes,  all  factions  in  England  have  revered 
her  institutions  of  learning.  Her  schools  and  colleges,  whatever  side  they  may  have  taken 
In  civil  war,  have  enjoyed  immunity  from  its  injuries,  when  even  her  stately  mid  venerable 
cathedrals  have  not  been  spared.  Think  what  permanence  these  schools  enjoy,  shielded  from 
the  storms  of  war  by  the  beneficent  principle  we  invoke.  \\  'hen-vcr  civilization  exist*,  \\hen> 
ever  men  are  humane  and  Christian,  the  College  or  the  school,  wisely  founded,  shall  Vn»lure. 
I  purchased  at  Eaton,  a  few  years  since,  a  little  book  containing  the  history  <>f  the  ten  great 
schools  of  England.  I  was  struck,  In  looking  over  it,  to  see  dates  of  tfcelr  endowment  :  Katon, 
in  llin;  \Vlin-li'  -st.-r,  U80;  Westminster,  1560;  St.  Paul's  1000]  KerohAQl  T:i  \lors',  1560; 
Charter  House,  ir.li  ;  Harrow,  l.'.Tl  ;  Kugi.y,  l.',r,7;  Shrewsbury,  1M9;  Christ's,  1552;  while  the 
origin  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge  Is  lost  in  th.-  darkness  of  antiquity. 

Thcs--  ^'-hools  have  survived  all  the  changes  of  dynasty,  all  the  changes  of  Institutions  and 
manners;  Puritan  and  Cavalier,  York  and  Lancaster  have  fought  out  their  batiks,  and  v.-t, 
In  the  wildest  tempests  of  popular  cxciteini-nf,  they 

not  their  spears  against  tho  Muses'  bower.'* 

At  Wln-'hestiT  William  of  Wykrham  foimdi-d,  In  l:;so.  a  school  which  81111  stands  and  has 
remained  through  four  dynaxlies.  (JuHph,  Hanover,  Tudor,  Yor  mid  Planta: 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  61 

close  its  doors.  The  building  was  soon  after  seized  by  the  military, 
and  used  first  as  a  barrack  and  next  as  a  hospital,  until  the  evacua- 
tion of  Williamsburg  in  May,  1862.  Williamsbusg  is,  to  a  force 
holding  James  and  York  rivers,  the  strategic  point  of  the  Peninsula. 
The  tides  in  deep  creeks,  emptying  into  the  James  and  the  York, 
and  flanked  by  impassable  morasses,  ebb  and  flow  within  a  mile  of 
the  city.  The  position  is  a  narrow  gorge,  where  the  roads  from 
above  and  below  converge  into  a  single  one,  passing  directly  through 
the  place.  It  was,  therefore,  held  by  the  United  States  army  in  the 
Peninsula  from  the  time  of  General  McClellan's  advance  on  Rich- 
mond till  the  close  of  the  war,  almost  without  intermission,  as  an 
important  post.  At  times,  however,  it  was  debatable  ground,  and 
was  alternately  in  the  possession  of  the  contending  forces.  A  con- 
flict occurred  on  the  9th  September,  1862,  between  a  detachment  of 
Confederate  cavalry  and  the  United  States  garrison,  then  consisting 
of  the  5th  regiment  Pennsylvania  cavalry,  in  which  the  latter  was 
worsted.  The  Confederates  took  possession  of  the  town  early  in  the 
day,  but  withdrew  in  a  few  hours.  After  they  had  retired  (by  11 
A.  M.  of  the  same  day  all  had  gone),  returning  stragglers  of  the 
garrison,  provoked  by  their  defeat,  under  the  influence  of  drink  and 
before  organization,  or  subordination  was  restored,  fired  and  de- 
stroyed the  principal  building,  with  furniture  and  apparatus.  For 
this,  it  is  believed,  no  authority  was  given  by  the  officers  in  com- 
mand. 

have  successively  struggled  for  and  occupied  the  English  throne,  while  in  the  building,  which 
Wykeham  in  his  lifetime  planned  and  built,  the  scholars  of  Winchester  are  still  governed  by 
the  statutes  which  he  framed. 

You  will  scarcely  find  an  instance,  in  England  or  America,  where  a  school  or  college,  wisely 
founded,  has  died.  "Whatever  perishes,  that  shall  endure."  .  . 

But  William  and  Mary  has  also  her  own  peculiar  claim  on  our  regard.  The  great  principles 
on  which  the  rights  of  man  depend,  which  inspired  the  statesmen  of  Virginia  of  the  period  of 
the  Revolution,  are  the  fruits  of  her  teaching.  The  name  of  Washington,  to  whose  genius  in 
war,  and  to  whose  influence  in  peace  we  owe  the  vindication  of  our  liberties  and  the  success- 
ful inauguration  of  our  constitution,  is  inseparably  connected  with  William  and  Mary.  She 
gave  him  his  first  commission  in  his  youth ;  he  gave  to  her  his  last  public  service  in  his  age. 
Jefferson,  author  of  the  declaration  of  independence,  who  announced  the  great  law  of  equality 
and  human  rights,  in  whose  light  our  Constitution  is  at  last  and  forever  to  be  interpreted, 
drank  his  inspiration  at  her  fountain.  Marshall,  without  whose  luminous  and  farsighted  ex- 
position our  Constitution  could  hardly  have  been  put  into  successful  and  harmonious  opera- 
tion, who  imbedded  forever  in  our  constitutional  law  the  great  doctrines  on  which  the  mea- 
sures that  saved  the  Union  are  based,  was  a  son  of  William  and  Mary.  By  the  cession  of  the 
great  Northwestern  territory,  largely  due  to  the  efforts  of  one  of  her  illustrious  sons,  she  lost 
a  great  part  of  her  revenues. 

Next  to  Harvard  she  is  the  oldest  of  American  Colleges.  The  gift  of  the  famous  Robert 
Boyle  was  held  by  her  for  many  years,  on  condition  of  an  annual  payment  of  £90  to  Harvard. 
Boyle  was  the  friend  of  many  of  the  early  friends  and  benefactors  of  Harvard,  and  a  cor- 
respondent of  one  of  its  first  Presidents.  Each  of  these  two  seminaries,  in  its  own  part  of  the 
country,  kindled  and  kept  alive  the  sacred  fire  of  liberty.  In  1743,  the  year  Jefferson  waa 


62  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

Extracts  from  the  depositions  of  Mrs.  Maria  T.  Peyton  and  Miss 
Mary  T.  Southall,  both  of  Williamsburg,  in  relation  to  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  College  in  September,  1862,  taken  before  Dr.  R.  M. 
Garrett,  magistrate  of  the  town  : 

Miss  Southall  deposes  :  "  That  she  resided  at  the  time  on  the  College  grounds 
in  the  President's  house,  and  that  she  was  alarmed,  on  the  evening  of  the  8th 
of  September,  by  the  cry  of  fire.  She  went  out  and  found  that  the  College 
Building  was  on  fire ;  that  soon  a  crowd  gathered  and  extinguished  the  flames ; 
and  that  while  carrying  a  bucket  of  water,  she  met  three  United  States  soldiers ; 
one  of  them  told  her  if  the  College  was  not  burned  that  day,  it  would  be  the 
next,  or  words  to  that  effect ;  that  early  the  next  day,  a  detachment  of  the 
Southern  cavalry  entered  and,  after  a  short  contest,  retired,  the  last  one  of 
them  leaving  by  ten  minutes  after  ten  o'clock  A.  M. ;  that  shortly  afterwards, 
the  College  yard  was  crowded  with  United  States  soldiers,  many  of  them 
drunk  and  boisterous ;  that  she  and  her  sisters  were  advised,  so  unruly  were 
they,  to  leave  the  premises,  which  they  did ;  that  about  five  o'clock,  P.  M., 
she  was  told  of  the  College  being  on  fire,  and  advised  to  return,  as  the  house 
in  which  she  lived  was  in  great  danger.  This  she  did,  and  soon  after  the 
College  was  a  smoking  ruin ;  and  that  there  is  no  doubt  of  the  destruction 
having  been  designedly  effected  by  drunken  United  States  soldiers." 

Mr^  Maria  T.  Peyton  deposes  essentially  to  the  same  facts  respecting  the 
fire  on  'the  9th  of  September,  resulting  in  the  burning  down  of  the  Build- 
ing; and  further  deposes  that  she  went  to  Lieut.  Col.  Smith,  who,  by  the 
capture  of  Col.  Campbell,  became  the  Commandant  of  the  Post  and  the 
Regiment  which  was  its  garrison,  the  Fifth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  and  told 
him  there  was  a  rumor  the  town  was  to  be  fired.  He  replied:  "No  such 
orders  had  been  or  would  be  given."  A  short  time  after,  the  alliuut  saw  the 
College  on  fire,  and  immediately  said  to  Col.  Smith  :  "See,  sir,  tin1  destruction 
has  begun."  He  replied,  that  it  had,  but  that  it  would  be  now  impossible  to 
save  the  building  for  want  of  buckets.  He  said  further,  he  had  a  set  of 

born,  Samuel  Adams  maintained,  on  taking  his  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  at  Harvard,  the 
affirmative  of  the  thesis,  whether  it  be  lawful  to  resist  the  Supreme  Magistrate,  if  the  < 
monwealth  cannot  otherwise  be  preserved  ?    In  this  hour  of  the  calamity  of  her  sister  College 
I  am  glad  to  believe  that  Harvard  does  not  forget  the  ancient  tie.    The  mother  of  the  Otises 
and  Adamses  would  gladly  extend  her  right  hand  to  the  mother  of  Jefferson  and  Marshall. 

If  civil  strife  or  foreign  war  shall  ever  again  disturb  our  pear  :iege  in  the  land 

will  be  eaferif  Congress  shall  to-day  make  this  solemn  recognition  of  the  nil.-  we  invoke.  To 
deny  it  is  to  deny  to  the  College  of  Washington  the  Justice  he  <ii<l  to  Princeton.  To  deny  it  is 
to  deny  to  Virginia  the  generous  treatment  which  Connecticut  received  from  Tryon,  Philadel- 
phia from  Cooke,  and  William  and  Mary  herself  fio:n  I..MUS  XVI.  of  Franc,-.  The  hal- 
lowed associations  which  .surround  this  College,  prevent.  thN  case  from  heing  a  precedent,  for 
any  other.  M  yon  had  Injured  It,  you  surely  would  have  restored  Mount.  Venion  ;  you  had 
better  honor  \Va-hin^ton,  l.y  restoring  the  living  fountain  of  learning,  KM  wa-;  the 

•in-  of  his  last  years,  than  l»y  any  useless  and  empty  act  of  wor.-lnp  or 

No  other  College  In  the  country  can  occupy  the  HJiine  p.  the  fortune  of  war 

that  ^r-r,  d  Institution,  which  has  conferred  on  the  country  a  hundredfold  more  l>encflt  than 
any  Other  In-titutlon  or  Coir  .'iili,  lun  »>•"  to  hold  out  the 

ollv,  -I'!''  "'  Virginia,  to  the  people?  of  th,-  South,  to  show  th"iu  that  we  Will 

Join  them  lu  rebuilding  the  w  ••  :tr." 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  63 

drunken  soldiers,  and  that  it  would  take  two  sober  men  to  control  one  drunken 
one.  The  affiant  turned  again  to  Col.  Smith  and  said  :  uDo,  sir,  try  and  save 
William  and  Mary  College,  for  it  will  be  a  stigma  on  the  page  of  history  if 
you  suffer  it  to  be  lost."  He  replied :  "I  have  no  means  of  putting  out  the 
fire;  it  cannot  now  be  saved."  The  affiant  distinctly  understood  from  Col. 
Smith,  that  no  order  had  been  given  to  burn  the  College,  but  that  it  was  done 
by  drunken  soldiers  whom  he  could  not  control.* 

At  later  periods  of  the  war  all  the  remaining  houses  on  the  College 
premises  and  the  enclosures  were  burned,  or  pulled  entirely  to 
pieces,  or  greatly  injured. 

The  vaults  in  the  College  chapel  were  broken  open  and  robbed  of 
the  silver  plates  attached  to  the  coffins,  and  of  whatever  else  of  value 
they  were  found  to  contain.  This  desecration  was  checked,  as  is 
stated,  when  it  became  known  to  the  military  commander. 

These  facts  are  fully  substantiated  by  the  affidavits  of  eye- 
witnesses. 

It  will  require  at  least  eighty  thousand  dollars  to  repair  these 
losses  and  restore  the  College  to  what  it  was  in  1860. 

The  College  grounds  and  buildings  not  destroyed  were  held  by 
the  United  States  Army  from  May,  1862,  to  September,  1865,  for 
depots  and  for  other  purposes.! 

*  It  was  further  declared  by  eye-witnesses,  that  while  the  College  was  burning,  some  of  the 
Fifth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  a  regiment  said  to  have  been  raised  in  Philadelphia,  surrounded 
the  building,  with  drawn  swords,  to  prevent  any  attempt  at  extinguishing  the  flames. 

t  The  difficulties  in  the  way  of  restoring  the  College  at  Williamsburg,  appeared  so  formi- 
dable, at  the  close  of  the  late  civil  war,  as  to  cau?e  some  of  its  best  friends  to  think  seriously 
of  its  removal.  Fortunately,  the  attempt  was  not  made.  The  following  extracts  from  a 
letter,  written  by  the  President  of  the  College,  to  Sydney  Smith,  Esq.,  of  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates, relate  to  the  subject: 

SHALL  WILLIAM  AND  MARY  COLLEGE  BE  REMOVED? 

WILLIAMSBURG,  January  3, 186T. 

Dear  £t>— Thinking  with  you  that  a  statement  of  the  difficulties  attending  an  attempt  to 
carry  the  College  of  William  and  Mary  from  its  present  classical,  time-honored  site,  may  have 
a  tendency  to  stop  the  discussion  of  the  subject,  I  will  comply  with  your  request,  and  mention 
some  of  them. 

And  first,  let  me  ask,  In  whom  does  the  power  to  move  vest  1  In  the  first  section  of  the 
charter— granted  in  1692— the  Trustees  therein  namedr  Francis  Nicholson,  William  Randolph,. 
Benj.  Harrison,  Mathew  Page,  and  others,  are  directed  to  establish  the  College  "upon  the 
South  side  of  York  river,  on  the  lands  of  Colonel  Townsend,  deceased,"  "or,  if  by  reason  of 
unwholesomeness  or  any  other  cause,  the  said  place  shall  not  be  approved  of,  wheresoever 
else  the  General  Assembly  of  our  Colony  of  Virginia,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  shall  think 
fit,  within  the  bounds  of  the  aforesaid  Colony— to  continue  for  all  times  coming."  The  site  of 
the  College  was  changed  about  a  year  after  it  was  fixed  by  the  Charter  to  the  Middle  Planta- 
tions, now  Williamsburg,  by  statute. 

It  would  seem  that  in  making  this  statute,  the  General  Assembly  exhausted  the  power  con- 
ferred by  the  Charter  as  to  the  location  of  the  College.  In  section  IX  of  the  Charter,  the 
gentlemen  named  as  trustees,  and  their  successors,  are  appointed  "  the  true,  sole,  and  un- 
doubted visitors  and  governors  of  the  said  College  forever,"  with  full  and  absolute  authority 
to  make  "rules,  laws,  statutes,  orders,  and  injunctions,  for  the  good  and  wholesome  govern- 


64  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

At  a  convocation  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  and  Governors  held 
during  the  month  of  August,  1865,  in  Richmond,  it  was  determined 
to  re-open  the  College  at  the  usual  time,  to  repair  some  of  the  College 
buildings  for  recitation  rooms,  and  to  provide  other  accommodations 
necessary  for  the  students.  This  was  done,  and  sufficient  temporary 
arrangements  made. 

At  the  same  time,  a  grammar  school  was  established,  to  be  under 
the  care  and  supervision  of  the  Faculty. 

The  wisdom  of  this  action  is  abundantly  confirmed  by  the  result. 
At  this  time,  January  15th,  1866,  there  is  a  grammar  school  in 
successful  operation.  The  numbers  composing  the  College  classes 
exceed  the  anticipations  of  the  most  sanguine;  nearly  sixty  attend 
the  academic  exercises. 

In  1867,  to  continue  this  historical  sketch  to  the  present  time,  the 

ment  of  the  said  College,"  to  elect  a  chancellor,  a  rector,  to  fill  vacancies  in  their  own  body, 
and  to  elect  a  president,  and  masters  or  professors  when  necessary.  No  other  powers  seem 
to  be  conferred  by  the  Charter  on  the  visitors  and  governors.  As  trustees,  they  were  ordered 
to  receive  and  dispose  of  the  College  property  until  the  College  should  be  actually  established, 
when  their  functions  as  trustees,  with  the  property,  were  to  be  transferred  to  the  president, 
and  masters  or  professors,  or  their  successors,  who  "  shall  be  a  body  politic  in  deed  and  name,'' 
who  "shall  have  perpetual  succession,"  with  the  right  to  hold  property,  to  sue  and  be  sued, 
Ac.,  and  who  shall  "have  a  common  seal,"  &c.  In  short,  the  Charter  does  not  provide  for  a 
removal,  but  intended  that  wherever  established,  the  College  was  "  to  continue,"  and  "to  be 
supported  and  maintained  for  all  time  coming."  (See  Charter.) 

An  exercise  of  such  authority  by  the  Legislature  would  be  a  usurpation;  by  the  Visitors  and 
Governors,  or  Faculty,  a  felo-de-se.  If  removed,  the  old  College  of  William  and  Mary,  the 
alma  mater  of  Virginia's  greatest  and  best  sons,  the  Institution  identified  with  Washington, 
and  Jefferson,  and  Monroe,  and  Marshall,  and  Tyler,  and  others  as  worthy,  whom  time  and 
space  do  not  allow  me  to  name,  would  cease  to  exist.  A  new  Institution,  bearing  the  same 
name,  of  greater  wealth,  and  perhaps,  of  equal  usefulness,  might  be  established ;  but  old 
William  and  Mary  would  be  among  the  things  of  the  past. 

But  assume  that  this  power  exists,  ought  it  to  be  exercised  ?  If  established  in  Richmond, 
or  Alexandria,  or  Petersburg,  or  Norfolk,  the  number  of  students  would  be  larger,  and  the 
Professors'  fees  remunerative,  but  I  doubt  if  the  number  of  young  men  In  attendance  from 
a  distance  would  equal  the  average  here.  In  a  town  like  this,  College  students  have  all  the 
advantages  of  society,  and  may  be  supervised  and  controlled.  In  a  city,  they  would  be  lost 
sight  of.  Experience,  in  all  parts  of  this  country,  has  demonstrated  that  Universities  and 
Colleges  do  not  prosper  in  cities.  The  classes  are  all  filled  up  for  the  most  part  with  boys, 
studying  what  they  could  much  better  learn  in  academies  and  private  schools,  with  but  few 
advanced  scholars.  What  constitutes  the  prosperity  of  a  College?  The  following  answer 
was  given  to  this  question  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Horrocks,  President  of  William  and  Mary,  a  cen- 
tury ago : 

"The  nourishing  state  of  a  college  is  not  to  be  estimated  by  the  number  of  wild  and  un- 
cultivated minds  which  may  be  brought  together,"  "itut  purely  by  the  number  of  competent 
scholars  and  well-behaved  gentlemen  which  are  sent  by  any  seminary  of  learning  into  the 
larger  society,  when:  they  vie  to  display  improved  talents  for  their  own  beiieilt  ami  the  public 
emolument." 

If  the  question  of  locality  was  an  open  one,  a  city  ought  not  to  be  What  is  the 

matter  with  Williamsburg?    Its  position  is  central  in  the  tide-water  country.     In  this  n 
It  is  a  suitable  site,  for  the  only  College  in  lower  Virginia.    To  be  sure,  the  College  is  doing  but 
little  lit  present,  beyond  local  instruction  ;  but  recollect,  that  Us  endowment  funds  an-  entirely 
unproductive,  .-xe.-ptlng  that  part  invested  in  stale  Stocks,  and  that   Its  buildings,  burned  or 
otherwise  destroyed  during  the  war,  have  been  but  partial;. 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  65 

visitors  and  governors  encouraged  by  the  interest  manifested  in  the 
restoration  of  the  College  by  distinguished  persons  in  every  part  of 
the  country,  and  the  substantial  aid  furnished  by  W.  W.  Corcoran,* 
of  Washington  city,  A.  T.  Stewart,  James  T.  Soutter,  Hon.  A.  E. 
Borie,  and  other  prominent  gentlemen  of  New  York,  Philadelphia 
and  Baltimore,  and  the  decree  of  the  English  courts  giving  the 
"Matty  Fund"  "in  trust"  to  the  College,  took  the  necessary  steps 
to  rebuild  and  reorganize  the  Institution. 


The  wise  policy  of  the  Visitors  has  been  to  permit  no  expenditures  by  which  the  endow- 
ment might  be  diminished,  and  to  preserve  the  Institution  free  from  debt,  knowing  it  to  be 
better  to  let  the  College  linger,  or  even  to  suspend  it  for  a  time— for  what  are  a  few  years  in 
comparison  to  the  life-time  of  a  College  ?— than  to  weaken  its  vitality  by  investing  its  capital 
stock  in  bricks  and  mortar.  Are  Oxford  and  Cambridge  less  valuable  or  less  dear  to  English- 
men now  because  of  their  mutations  of  fortune  during  the  thousand  years  of  their  existence  ? 
As  to  health,  I  assert  that  Williamsburg  is,  during  the  entire  College  session,  one  of  the  very 
healthiest  places  in  Virginia.  Living  is  cheap  here,  and  will  be  cheaper. 

Is  this  old  Colonial  Capital,  with  all  its  cherished  traditions,  and  associations,  and  existing 
attractions,  to  go  for  nothing,  because  it  has  been  desolated  by  war  ?  Other  places  may  be 
ahead  of  it  in  promise  and  progress,  but  they  are  farther  behind  it  in  tone,  in  refinement,  in 
civilization.  There  is  no  College  in  the  United  States  where  the  intercourse  between  citizen, 
professor  and  student  is  more  cordial  and  mutually  beneficial  in  all  respects. 

As  to  the  fitness  of  the  place  and  its  surroundings  for  study  and  improvement,  judge  of 
the  tree  by  its  fruits.  Among  the  students  of  the  last  thirty  years,  some  of  the  brightest  and 
best  of  whom  have  sealed  their  devotion  to  Virginia  with  their  blood,  are  to  be  found  scholars 
and  patriots,  fit  successors  of  the  illustrious  men  educated  here  in  the  last  century. 

As  yet  I  have  not  adverted  to  the  losses  of  property  the  College  would  sustain  by  a  removal. 
Directly  and  indirectly,  the  losses  would  be  $40,000  at  least.  What,  too,  if  the  heirs  of  private 
donors  to  the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  at  Williamsburg,  were  to  assert  their  claims  to 
the  gifts  of  their  ancestors  ?  Nearly  the  whole  endowment  would  be  swept  away.  The  con- 
dition of  the  College  is  by  no  means  desperate.  It  is  better  off  to-day  than  it  was  In  1783.  In 
1776  its  revenue  was  about  $12,000 ;'  in  1783,  it  had  $2,500  in  money,  and  the  land  given  in  1692 
by  William  and  Mary.  Now  its  endowment  is  over  $100,000.  Though  dismantled,  the  College 
has  yet  much  capacity  for  future  good.  In  its  present  state,  it  is  an  apt  type  of  Tide-Water 
Virginia,  scourged  and  desolated  by  war.  Through  patient  industry,  this  region  will  "  smile 
and  blossom"  as  it  never  has  before,  and  with  it  the  College  will  rise  from  its  ashes,  develop 
itself  anew  to  meet  the  wants  of  the  people,  and  in  good  time  reach  the  full  measure  of  its 
former  prosperity.  You  agree  with  me,  I  feel  fully  assured,  that  Virginians  are  bound  by  con- 
siderations of  the  past  and  present  to  continue  the  College  where  it  is,  and  that  by  them  it 
ought,  to  be  supported  and  maintained  for  all  time  coming. 
Very  respectfully, 

BENJ.  S.  EWELL. 

*  Mr.  Corcoran  founded  a  Scholarship,  as  did  Mr.  Soutter. 

The  Scholarships  Founded  in  the  College  before  1776,  are  : 

The  House  of  Burgesses  Scholarships,  3.    Founded  by  the  House  of  Burgesses. 
The  Hill  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  Col.  Edward  Hill,  of  Shirley. 
The  Carter  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  Robert  Carter,  (King),  of  Corotoman. 
The  Bray  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  Mrs.  Thomas  Bray,  of  New  Kent. 
The  Harrison  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Harrison,  of  Surry. 
The  Lightfoot  Scholarships,  2.    Founded  by  Philip  Lightfdot,  of  Sandy  Point. 
The  Blair  Scholarships,  2.    Founded  by  Rev.  Dr.  James  Blair,  of  Williamsburg, 

Those  Founded  since  are : 

The  Corcoran  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  W.  W.  Corcoran,  of  Washington  City,  1867. 
The  Soutter  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  James  T.  Soutter,  of  New  York,  1869. 
The  Grigsby  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  LL.  D.,  of  Norfolk,  1871. 
The  Graves  Scholarship,  1.    Founded  by  Rev.  Robt.  J.  Graves,  D.  D.,  of  Pennsylvania,  1872. 
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66  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

In  July,  1869,  the  main  building  being  substantially  restored,  the 
Faculty  was  reorganized  with  a  sufficient  corps  of  academic  profes- 
sors ;  the  course  of  studies  revised  and  modified ;  and  the  College 
ordered  to  be  regularly  opened  for  students,  for  the  first  time  with  a 
full  Faculty  since  1861. 

The  session  commenced  encouragingly,  notwithstanding  the  short 
notice,  and  there  is  now  every  prospect  of  reasonable  success.  The 
building  is  well  constructed  and  suitable.  The  library  numbers  about 
five  thousand  volumes,  having  been  increased  by  some  twelve  hun- 
dred volumes  within  the  last  twelve  months ;  the  gift  for  the  greater 
part  of  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  of  Boston;  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  A.  J. 
Barnes  &  Co.,  D.  Van  Nostrand,  and  Harper  and  Brothers,  of  New 
York;  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.,  of  Philadelphia;  and  J.  Murphy  & 
Co.,  of  Baltimore,  publishers ;  and  of  a  few  gentlemen  of  England? 
among  them  Mr.  R.  Potts,  A.  M.,  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  and 
the  Earl  of  Derby.  The  philosophical  and  chemical  apparatus  is 
in  good  order,  and  ample  for  purposes  of  experiment,  illustration 
and  research.  With  the  "Matty  Fund,"  the  recovery  of  which  has 
been  mentioned,  the  preparatory  department  has  been  endowed  and 
is  in  successful  operation.  Mrs.  Mary  Whaley,  of  Bruton  parish,  bj 
her  will,  dated  February  16th,  1741,  devised  to  Rev.  Thomas  Daw- 
son,  rector;  John  Blair  and  Thomas  Jones,  church-wardens;  and 
to  Peyton  Randolph,  Thomas  Cobbes,  Henry  Tyler,  Matthew  Pierce, 
Lewis  Bur  well,  Benj.  Waller  and  William  Parks,  and  their  succes- 
sors, a  piece  of  land,  just  north  of  Dr.  R.  P.  Waller's  residence,  on 
the  road  to  the  capital  landing,  containing  about  ten  acres,  on  which 
were  erected  a  school-house,  called  "Matty's  School,"  and  a  dwelling 
house  for  the  master,  "upon  trust  to  continue  the  same  for  the  iisi* 
of  the  said  school,  viz :  and  to  teach  the  neediest  children  of  the  said 
parish  in  the  art  of  reading,  writing  and  arithmetic,  to  eternalize 
Matty's  school  forever."  The  testatrix  also  gave  fifty  pounds  sterling, 
and  the  residue  of  her  estate,  after  paying  certain  legacies.  Mrs.. 
Whaley  died  in  1742.  The  executor  failed  to  comply  with  the  terms 
of  the  will,  and  a  suit  was,  in  consequence,  instituted  in  the  Colo- 
nial court,  and  a  decree  obtained  re.jiiirinir  the  heir-at-law  to  convey 
tho  land,  and  the  executor,  Mr.  .lames  K  ran  noes,  to  pay  the  iit'tj 
pounds  and  account  for  the  residue.  The  conveyance  was  soon  a  Her 
made,  but  the  money  was  not  pai'l,  and  a  suit  was  brought  against 
lh«-  executor  in  the  English  court  of  ehancrry,  where  it  was  decree. 1 
in  1752,  that  the  charity  ou-ht  to  be  established,  and  that  ' 
Utor  should  pay  into  the  OOUrt  five  hundred  pounds  sterling.  Tlii* 
i  was  paid  and  ordered  to  he  invested  in  Knijish 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH.  67 

Nothing  further  was  done  till  1866,  when  an  English  attorney,  Mr. 
C.  M.  Fisher,  after  corresponding  with  the  Faculty,  and  learning  that 
the  College  would  consent  to  execute  the  trust  to  the  extent  of  re- 
ceiving into  the  preparatory  department  of  the  College,  without 
charge  for  tuition,  fifteen  of  the  neediest  boys  of  the  Parish,  applied 
to  the  chancery  court  for,  and  obtained  a  decree,  directing  the 
whole  sum  to  be  paid  to  the  College  on  the  condition  mentioned. 
The  net  amount  received  was  about  eight  thousand  two  hundred 
dollars. 

The  correspondence  was  commenced  by  Mr.  Fisher  in  1859,  and 
was  first  directed  to  the  rector  of  the  parish,  and  by  the  rector  re- 
ferred to  the  College. 

This  whole  transaction  reflects  great  credit  on  the  English  people 
and  government.  That  a  sum  of  money,  and  its  accumulation  of 
dividends,  belonging  to  parties  in  a  foreign  land,  should  be  paid, 
without  dispute  or  cavil,  after  the  lapse  of  more  than  a  century 
notwithstanding  the  bitterness  of  feeling  resulting  from  two  severe 
wars,  is  an  evidence  of  national  integrity  and  honor  that  ought  to 
make  every  American,  who  has  English  blood  in  his  veins,  feel 
proud  of  his  ancestry. 

The  preparatory  department,  its  name  being  in  virtue  of  a  second 
condition,  changed  to  the  "  Grammar  and  Matty  School,"  thus  en- 
dowed, bids  fair  to  become  useful  and  prosperous. 

It  may  be  observed,  that  the  city  of  Williamsburg,  in  which  the 
College  is  located,  has  a  population  of  nearly  two  thousand,  and  has 
long  been  celebrated  for  the  hospitality  of  its  inhabitants,  making 
it  a  most  agreeable  residence  for  the  student.  Of  late,  the  town  and 
the  adjacent  country  have  been  much  improved.  Timber  has  been 
cleared  away,  and  a  better  system  of  cultivation  introduced ;  and  the 
result  has  been  a  decided  improvement  in  the  healthiness  of  the  lo- 
cality. Few  places  in  the  State  can  boast  a  more  sulubrious  climate 
than  this  during  the  College  session.  Diseases  peculiar  to  the  low 
country  prevail  only  in  the  months  of  August  and  September,  and 
of  late  years,  these  have  been  very  mild  in  their  character  and  easily 
controlled  by  medicines.  From  October  to  July,  while  the  College 
is  in  session,  these  diseases  are  never  contracted.  The  winter  cli- 
mate is  delightful,  the  cold  being  moderated  by  the  large  bodies  of 
salt  water  in  the  vicinity,  while  it  is  too  far  distant  from  the  ocean 
to  be  much  affected  by  storms.  The  heat  of  summer  is  neutralized 
by  the  same  means,  so  that  in  the  hottest  weather  the  thermometer 
ranges  from  three  to  five  degrees  lower  than  in  Richmond. 

Students  from  the  upper  country  need  be  under  no  apprehension 


68  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

from  the  effect  of  the  climate ;  while  to  those  predisposed  to  pulmo- 
nary complaints  it  would  be  decidedly  beneficial.  During  the  pres- 
ent century,  only  seven  deaths  have  occurred  among  the  students  of 
the  College,  and  two  of  these  were  from  drowning. 

The  College  of  William  and  Mary,  as  well  by  its  past  history  as 
its  capacity  for  future  usefulness,  has  a  just  claim  to  the  sympathy 
and  aid  of  the  friends  of  learning,  wherever  they  are  to  be  found. 

More  especially  does  this  claim  apply  to  Episcopalians  in  behalf 
of  what  was  the  oldest  church  institution  in  America. 

The  following  is  from  the  address  before  quoted : 

The  associations  which  cluster  around  this  locality,  render  it  peculiarly  ap- 
propriate for  a  seat  of  learning.  Can  the  young  heart  maintain  a  quiet  pulse 
in  wandering  amid  the  ruins  which  tell  of  a  glorious  past,  and  everywhere 
meet  his  eye  ?  Will  he  not  gather  from  the  very  fragments  which  lie  scattered 
over  the  earth  at  Jamestown,  almost  in  sight  of  this  spot,  a  lesson  never  to  be 
forgotten,  inspiring  him  with  courage  and  perseverance  in  the  great  battle  of 
life? 

Will  not  these  fragments  tell  him  a  tale  of  hardship  and  suffering  on  the  part 
of  the  early  settlers,  unequalled  in  the  history  of  his  race,  and  of  an  ultimate 
triumphant  conclusion  more  grand  in  its  results  than  fancy  ever  sketched  or 
poet  in  rapt  imagination  ever  sang? 

Will  not  that  broken  steeple,  reared  centuries  ago  in  honor  of  the  living  God, 
preach  to  him  like  an  aged  minister,  and  impress  upon  his  heart  the  all-gov- 
erning truth  that  without  Divine  •assistance  nothing  great  and  nothing  good 
can  ever  be  accomplished  ? 

Does  he  seek  incentives  to  an  ardent  and  burning  patriotism?  Let  him  visit 
the  ruins  of  the  old  capitol,  and  ponder  there  until  his  heart  expands  and  his 
lips  give  utterance  to  that  exclamation  which  aroused  a  continent  from  slumber. 

Let  him,  then,  find  his  way  to  the  Apollo  Hall  of  the  old  Raleigh  Tavern, 
and  mrx  with  the  noble  spirits  in  their  deep  deliberations  on  the  great  crises 
that  had  arisen.  Those  who  assembled  there  were  for  the  most  part  his  elder 
brothers,  sons  of  the  same  Alma  Mater. 

In  a  few  hours  thereafter  he  may  find  himself  wandering  over  the  entrench- 
ments at  Yorktown,  behind  which  British  power  made  its  last  defence. 

These  memorials  of  the  mighty  past  are  not  dead  and  voiceless.  They  speak 
more  eloquently  than  the  Roman  or  Athenian  of  old  before  the  Senate  or  As- 
sembly of  the  people.  They  tell  of  past  glory  and  an;  the  oracles  that  unveil 
the  future.  Sinking  deep  into  the  heart  of  youth,  they  inspire  it  with  the  lofty 
desires  which  make  ambition  virtue. 

The  oldest,  save  one,  of  all  the  literary  institutions  of  the  I'mlcd  States 
William  and  Mary  has  contributed  its-  full  share  to  the  public  enlightenment, 
and  made  a  mark  in  history  which  neither  lire  ran  eonsumc  nor  dn>t.  nor:! 
oh-eiire.  Thriee  now  lias  its  genius  been  driven  by  cruel  llames  fro.n  the  edi- 
fices erected  fnr  her  abode.  To-day  >he  i<  banished  from  her  ancient  temple— 
that  temple  i-  now  in  ruin-. 


HISTOKICAL  SKETCH.  69 

These  hallowed  walls,  in  which  the  calm  voice  of  philosophy  has 
for  so  many  generations  been  heard,  have  not  been  allowed  to  stand 
a  blackened  monument  of  the  desolations  of  war  and  a  reproach  to 
our  age  and  people.  On  the  contrary,  new  and  more  beautiful  temples 
have  arisen  to  receive  and  welcome  the  genius  of  education,  and  to 
foster  that  philosophy  and  those  arts  and  sciences,  the  achievements 
of  which  it  is  the  glory  of  a  nation  to  honor  as  the  noblest  victories 
of  peace.* 

*The  appeal  made  after  the  fire  of  1859,  to  Virginians  and  others,  for  aid  to  the  College,  was 
liberally  responded  to  in  this  State  and  New  York.  Among  those  who  made  donations  in  sums 
of  five  hundred  dollars  and  upwards,  were : 

Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  LL.  D.,  Norfolk,  for  a  vested  library  fund $1,000  00 

Richard  Baylor,  Rosegill,  Essex  county 1,000  00 

William  Beverly,  Blandfleld,  Essex  county 1,000  00 

Philip  St.  George  Cocke,  Powhatan 1,000  00 

William  B.  Harrison,  Upper  Brandon,  Prince  George , 1,000  00 

George  Harrison,  Lower  Brandon,  "          "       50000 

Miss  Belle  Harrison,  Lower  Brandon,      "          "       50000 

Williams  Carter,  Hanover 500  00 

Dr.  Robert  P.  Waller,  Williamsburg 500  00 

Dr.Nath.M.  Osborne,  Prince  George 500  00 

Alexander  T.  Stewart,  New  York  city 500  00 

James  T.  Soutter,  "       "       "   50000 

John  Tyler,  late  President  of  the  United  States . :. 500  00 

The  subscribers  of  less  sums  were  numerous.  There  is  no  authentic  list  of  these  names 
within  reach.  All  the  members  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  made  liberal  subscriptions,  including 
Governor  Henry  A.  Wise,  Tazewell  Taylor,  Esq.,  William  S.  Peachy,  Colonel  E.  T.  Tayloe, 
Judge  W.  W.  Crump,  Dr.  Nathaniel  M.  Osborne,  James  Lyons,  &c. 

Among  the  Subscribers  during  and  since  1867,  are  to  be  found  the  names  of: 

His  Grace,  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury England. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Archbishop " 

Robert  Potts,  A.  M.,  Cambridge  University " 

The  Earl  of  Derby " 

J.  S.  Pendergrast,  Esq " 

MissGoddard " 

Miss  Sarah  B.  Nevins " 

Williams*  Norgate " 

Maxon  &  Co „ " 

John  Murray,  Esq " 

A.  T.  Stewart New  York  City. 

James  T.  Soutter "  " 

Wm.  E.  Dodge "  " 

August  Belmont 

Robert  Bonner 

S.  Cooke 

Charles  Scribner  &  Co 

A.J.Barnes  &  Co 

Harper  &  Brothers 

D.  Appleton-  &  Co 

D.  Van  Nostrand 

Van  Evrle  &  Horton 

Dr.  Thomas  Dunn  English 

Udolpho  Wolfe 

George  B.  Field 


70  HISTORICAL,  SKETCH. 


INSCRIPTION  FROM  THE  MURAL  TABLET,  IN  MEMORY  OP  SIR  JOHN  RAN- 
DOLPH, WHICH  WAS  DESTROYED  BY  FIRE  IN  THE  COLLEGE  CHAPEL  OF 
WILLIAM  AND  MARY  IN  1859. 

Hoc  juxta  marmor  S.  E. 

Johannes  Randolph,  Eques. ; 

Hujus  Collegii  dulce  ornamentum,  alumnus ; 

Insigne  presidium  gubernator, 

Grande  columen  Senator, 

Gulielmum  patrem  generosum, 

Mariam  ex  Ishamorum  stirpe. 

In  agro  Northamptonieiisi  matrem 

Praeclaris  dotibus  honestavit, 

Filius  natu  Sextus 

Literis  humanioribus 

Artibusque  ingenuis  fideliter  instructus ; 

(Illi  quippe  fuerat  turn  eruditionis, 

Turn  doctrinae  sitis  nunquam  explenda.) 

Hospitium  Graiense  concessit, 

Quo  in  domicilio 

Studiis  unice  deditus, 

Statim  inter  legum  peritos  excelluit, 

J.  D.  Alsop New  York  City. 

John  J.  Williams 

James  S.  Thayer 

Currier,  Sherwood  &  Co 

Treadwell  &  Jarman 

A.  A.  Lowe 

Rev.  Francis  Vinton,  D.  C.  L 

Hon.  A.  E.  Borie Philadelphia. 

A.  JvDrexel " 

J.  G.  Fell " 

G.  W.  Childs 

Edward  Coles " 

Z.  W.  Clark  &  Co 

J.  B.  Lippincott  A  Co 

Miss  Laura  Robinett 

Henry  C.  Lea 

Moncure  Robinson 

Rev.  Christopher  B.  Wyatt,  D.  D San  Francisco- 
Francis  E.  Parker Host.  MI. 

L.  Saltonstall 

Alex.  II.  Rice 

Little,  Brown  A  Co " 

Mrs.  Isabella  Brown Baltimore. 

Rev.  K.  A.  Dalrymple,  D.  D 

William  Rcynol.ls,  .Jr " 

G.  S.  Brown " 

John  Murphy " 

Bartlctt  A-  Rot. ins 

Collins  A  Heath 

-J.  M.<  

K.  M.  fn.ii.l 

Kev.  M.  MuhiiM,  I>.  D 


HISTOEICAL  SKETCH.  71 

Togamqne  induit ; 
Causis  validissimus  agendis. 

In  Patriam 
Quam  semper  habuit  charissimam  reversus, 

Causidici 
Senatus  primum  clerici  deinde  prolocutoris 

Thesaurarii 

Legati  ad  Anglos  semel  atque  iterum  rnissi, 

Glocestrias  demum  curise  judicis  primarii, 

Vices  arduas  honestasque  sustinuit 

Perite,  graviter,  integre  ; 

Quibus  in  muniis, 

Yix  parem  habuit 

Superiorem  certe  neminem. 

Hos  omnes  quos  optime  meruit  honores, 

Cum  ingenua  totius  corporis  pulchritude, 

Et  quidam  senatorius  decor, 

Turn  eximiuni  ingenii  acumen 

Egregie  illustrarunt. 
At  JEquitas  summi  juris  expers, 

Clientum  fidele  omnium 
Pauperiorum  sine  mercede  patrocinium, 

Samuel  G.  Wyman Baltimore. 

Rev.  Peyton  Harrison " 

Mrs.  Peyton  Harrison " 

J.  P.  Pleasants " 

John  W.  Garrett " 

Union  Club,  through  Mr.  J.  R.  Patridge " 

C.  Morton  Stewart  and  others " 

J.  Glenn " 

8.  Teackle  Wallace " 

Otho  Williams " 

W.  W.  Corcoran Washington  City. 

Mrs.  M.  Berry Georgetown,  D.  C 

Miss  E.  S.  Ewell "  " 

John  Lindesay Virginia. 

Peter  T.  Powell " 

W.  W.  Vest " 

Talbot  Sweeny " 

Robert  F.  Cole " 

Alex.  Dunlap , " 

M.  R.  Harrell " 

W.  H.  E.  Morecock " 

John  Motley " 

Dr.  Leonard  Henley " 

Wm.S.Peachy " 

H.  M.  Waller " 

Santos  &  Brother «« 

Archer  Brooks . .  , " 

P.  M.  Thompson " 

Dr.  Charles  Coleman , " 

Colonel  A.  Ordway " 

General  J.  Mulford " 

John  R.  Thompson " 


72  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

Hospitium  sine  luxu  splendidum, 

Veritas  sine  fuco, 

Sine  fastu  Charitas. 

Ceteris  animi  virtutibus 

Facile  prseluxerunt. 

Tandem 

Laboribus  vigiliisque  fractus, 

Morboque  lentissimo  confectus 

Cum  sibi  satis,  sed  ainicis,  sed  Keip  :  parum  vixissd, 

Susannam 

Petri  Beverley  Armigeri 

Filiam  natu  minimam, 

Conjugem  delectissimam, 

(Ex  qua  tres  filios  filianique  unicam  susceperat,) 
Sui  magno  langueatem  desiderio 

Reliquit 

Sexto  Non  :  Mar :  Anno  Dom  :  1736-7 
^Etat:  44. 

(From  the  Virginia  Gazette,  November  11,  1775.) 

Sacred 

To  the  memery  of 

The  Hon.  Peyton  Randolph,  Esq'r, 

Whose  distinguished  virtues  in  every  station  of  life 

Gained  him 

The  affection  and  confidence  of  his  Conn  try. 

Descended  from  an  ancient  and  respectable  family, 

He  received  a  liberal  and  polite  education 

In  William  and  Mary  College. 

Removing  (from)  thence  to  the  Inner  Temple, 

He  was  advanced  to  the  Degree  of  Barrister  at  Law, 

And  appointed  Attorney  General  of  Virginia. 

In  this  Office 

His  regard  to  the  peace  and  security  of  Society, 
^ 

Charles  Hansford Virginia. 

Rev.  Samuel  Cheevers 

Charles  Gallagher " 

MissR.  L.  Ewell 

H.  8.  McCandllsh 

T.  T.  L.  Snead 

T.  P.  McCandlish 

Robert  A.  Bright 

T.  J.  Itarlow 

i mln  S.  Kwcll ^ 

JuniiiH  Lamb 

Rlchardticm  II«-nlcy 

•nil  R.  H.  Ewt-ll 

T.  8.  I?.  TiK'k'-r 

Dr.  B.  St.  O.  Tucker 

Mm.  Uyutbla  Ji.  T.  Coirm.in 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

His  humanity  and  benevolence 
To  the  criminal  his  duty  obliged  him  to  prosecute, 

Were  not  more  conspicuous 

Than  his  Learning  and  Integrity  in  Ms  Profession. 
After  an  extensive  practice  in  the  General  Court, 

He  resigned  his  Law  employments ; 
And  being  elected  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses, 

Discharged  the  duties  of  that  high  office 

With  such  Ease,  Dignity  and  Impartiality, 

That  he  was  frequently  called  to  the  Chair,  by  the 

Unanimous  voice 

~~  Of  the  Representatives  of  the  People. 
When  the  measures  of  the  British  Ministry 
Compelled  the  American  Congress  to  unite  their  Councils 

In  General  Congress, 
He  was  chosen  first  Delegate  for  this  Colony 

To  that  illustrious  Assembly ; 

And  was  by  them  unanimously  elected  their  PRESIDENT. 

While  he  was  a  third  time  attending  to  that  great  Great  Council, 

A  sudden  stroke  of  the  Palsy  deprived 

America  of  a  firm  Patriot, 

His  Country  of  a  wise  and  faithful  Senator, 

His  acquaintance  of  an  invaluable  Friend, 

His  family  of  the  most  affectionate  Husband 

And  kindest  Master. 

Upon  the  22d  Day  of  October,  1775, 

In  the  54th  Year  of  his  Age. 


73 


CATALOGUE 

OF   THE 

COLLEGE  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MARY, 

IN  VIRGINIA, 
FROM  ITS  FOUNDATION  TO   1874. 


The  names  of  the  Visitors,  Bursars,  Faculty  and  Students  at  College  after  1733,  in  the  fol- 
lowing Catalogue,  are  taken  from  papers  and  records  in  possession  of  the  Faculty.  The  names 
of  Students  of  an  earlier  date  were  obtained  from  different  sources. 

The  College  records  containing  the  names  of  Students  before  1827,  being  exceedingly  im- 
perfect and  in  a  mutilated  condition,  it  is  certain  a  great  number  are  omitted.  Any  person 
who  may  detect  an  error  in  this  Catalogue  will  confer  a  favor  on  the  Faculty,  by  communi- 
cating it  without  delay  to  the  Faculty  of  the  College. 


CHANCELLORS. 

NAXES.  RESIDENCES.  REMAKK8. 

The  Bishops  of  London England Until  1764. 

The  Earl  of  Hardwicke "       1764. 

The  Bishops  of  London "       From  1764  to  1776. 

Gen.  George  Washington Mount  Vernon From  1788  to  1799. 

John  Tyler,  Ex-Pres.  of  U.  S.,  Charles  City From  1859  to  1802. 

Hugh  Blah1  Grigsby,  LL.  D....  Charlotte From  1871. 

VISITORS 
NAMED  IN  THE  CHARTER. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  UHMAHKS. 

Francis  Nicholson,  Esq Williamsburtj. 

U'illiam  Cole,  Esq Warwick. 

Ralph  Wormley,  Esq Middlesex. 

William  Byrd,  Esq Wcstover,  Charles  City. 

John  L<-ar,  Ksq .\<t/ts>  ///o/i'f. 

JaiiM--   I'.lair.  c|,.|-k 

John  FurnifoM.  Clerk L»n 

Stephen   Foiiar-.-.  Clerk " 

Samuel  Cray,  Clerk 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  75 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Thomas  Milner,  Gent Nansemond. 

Christopher  Kobinson,  Gent.... Middlesex. 

Charles  Scarborough,  Gent Accomac. 

John  Smith,  Gent. 

Benjamin  Harrison,  Gent Surry. 

Miles  Cary,  Gent Warwick. 

Henry  Hartwell,  Gent James  City. 

William  Randolph,  Gent Henrico. 

Matthew  Page,  Gent Gloucester. 

VISITORS  IN  1723. 


KESIDENCES. 


Alexander  Spotswood,  Esq Williamsburg Governor  of  the  Colony, 

Robert  Carter,  Esq Corotoman,  Lan.  co..Secretary  of  the  Council* 

William  Byrd,  Esq Westover,  Charles  City. 

Nathaniel  Harrison,  Esq Wake  field,  Surry  co. 

Cole  Digges,  Esq Williamsburg. 

Peter  Beverly,  Esq Gloucester. 

John  Clayton,  Esq "        The  eminet  botanist. 

John  Robinson,  Esq King  and  Queen. 

William  Bland,  Clerk Williamsburg. 

Emmanuel  Jones,  Clerk 

Bartholomew  Yates,  Clerk 

John  Skaife,  Clerk Gloucester. 

William  Randolph,  Gent Chatsworth,  Henrico. 

John  Randolph,  Gent Tazewell  Hall,  Williamsburg. 

William  Robertson,  Gent Williamsburg. 

John  Grymes,  Gent Middlesex. 

William  Cole,  Gent Warwick. 

VISITORS  IN  1758. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Hon.  John  Blair,  Esq Williamsburg President  of  the  Council. 

Hon.  William  Kelson,  Esq York "  " 

Hon.  Thomas  Nelson,  Esq "    u 

Philip  Grymes,  Esq, Middlesex. 

Richard  Corbin,  Esq " 

Philip  Ludwell,  Esq James  city. 

William  Lightfoot,  Esq Sandy  Point,  Chas.   City. 

Thomas  Dawson,  Clerk Commissary. 

Mann  Page,  Gent Rosewell,  Gloucester  co. 

Peyton  Randolph,  Gent Williamsburg Speaker  House  of  Burgesses 

Charles  Carter,  Gent Shirley,  CJias.  City  co. 

Richard  Bland,  Gent Prince  George Treasurer  and  Speaker 

House  of  Burgesses. 


76  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 


VlSITOKS   FKOM    1761    TO    1763. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMABKS. 

Hon.  Francis  Fauquier Williamsburg Governor. 

C.  Thacker,  Clerk Gloucester. 

John  Fox,  Clerk " 

William  Robinson,  Clerk King  and  Queen Commissary. 

Francis  Willis,  Gent Gloucester. 

Charles  Robinson,  Gent. 

Robt.  Carter  Nicholas,  Gent...  Williamsburg Treasurer  of  the  Colony. 

Lewis  Burwell,  Gent James  City. 

Peter  Randolph,  Gent Chatsworth,  Henrico. 

George  Wythe,  Gent Williamsburg. 


VISITOKS  ELECTED  AFTER  1763. 

NAMES.  DATE  OF  ELECTION.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

John  Page 1764...  Gloucester. 

Hon.  Dudley  Digges 1764. ..James  City. 

Charles  Carter 1764...  Corotoman. 

Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates.,1766...  Williamsburg. 
Rev.  James  M.  Fontaine...  1767...  Gloucester. 

Dr.  Arthur  Lee 1767...  Williamsburg. 

Rt.  Hon.  N.  Berkeley, 

Baron  De  Botetourt 1768...  u  Governor  of  the  Colony. 

John  Page,  Jun I768...fiosewell Governor  of  Virginia. 

Hon.  William  Byrd 1769...  Westover. 

Carter  Braxton 1769. ..King  William  county. 

Edward  Ambler 17 69. ..James  Town. 

Thomas  Nelson,  Jun 1770...  York. 

Richard  Randolph 1770...  Curls,  Henrico. 

Right  Hon.  John,  Earl  of 

Dunmore 1772...  Williamsburg Governor  of  the  Colony. 

Rev.  Thomas  Field 1773 

CoL  Benjamin  Harrison...  1773. ..Berkeley,  Ch.  City. 

Robert  Beverly 1 775 ...  Blandfield. 

Nathaniel  IJunvell 1775...  Gloucester. 

Jinn.  Kalph  Wonnle.y 177 '5... Middle* <*. 

John  I  Jan  i  lister Mil  ...Dinwidtlir. 

Warner  Lewis Mil  ...Gloucester. 

Ei  I  mi  md  Randolph 1777...  Wif/iinntilmri/. 

Beiijamiii  Harri>nM 1777...  llnni'lim*  I'.  Geo. 

rjen.  Thorns  NYl-oii 1777...  For* Governor  of  Virginia. 

TI...Mi:is.f.-n.MvoM l77$...Alb&JMrU Pres't  of  United  B 

Jamee  Madi-.n 1779..,  Gronfl* " 

.lame-   linn-- 17^'J...  York. 

Kiehanl  Henry  Lee 17*1...  H",.s-////i,r/ ///;/'/. 

iy  Randolph 17s  I...  ('>nnl><  r/,m>L 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


77 


HAMES.  DATE  OF  ELECTION. 

Robert  Beverly 1784... 

Henry  .Tazewell 1786... 

Samuel  Griffin 1786.., 

Francis  Corbin 1788.. 

Philip  Ludwell  Grymes....l7S8... 

Mann  Page 1788... 

St.  George  Tucker 1788... 


David  Stuart 

John  Marshall 

Philip  Barraud 

Hugh  Nelson 

John  Carter  Byrd ., 

Joseph  Prentis. 

William  Nelson... 


Cyrus  Griffin 

Otway  Byrd 

Henry  Lee 

Arthur  Lee 

Rev.  John  Dunbar 

Burwell  Basset 

William  Nelson , 

John  Ambler 

William  Lee 

John  Blair 

Littleton  W.  Tazewell 

Robert  Saunders 

Thomas  Nelson 

William  Coleman 

Robert  Greenhow 

Wilson  Miles  Gary 

Champion  Travis 

Mann  Page,  Jun 1800.. 

John  Minson  Gait 1800.. 

William  Tazewell... 
Robert  P.  Waller.... 

James  Semple 

Samuel  Tyler 

John  Tyler 1804... 


...1790... 
...1790... 
...1791.. 
...1791... 
...1791.. 
...1791.. 
...1791.. 
...1791.. 
...1791.. 
...1792... 
...1792.. 
...1792... 
...1792... 
...1792... 
...1794.. 
...1800.. 
...1800... 
...1800.. 
...1800.., 
...1800.. 
...1800.., 
...1800.., 
...1800.. 
...1800... 


KESIDENCES.  REMARI 

Blandfield,  Essex. 

James  City. 

Williamsburg. 

Caroline. 

Middlesex. 

Spottsylvania. 

Williamsburg. 

Fairfax. 

Fauquier  county Chief  Justice. 

Williamsburg. 
York. 

Williamsburg. 
ti 

York. 

Williamsburg. 
Norfolk. 
Westmoreland. 

u 

Williamsburg. 
« 

Charles  City. 

James  City. 

u 

Williamsburg. 
Norfolk. 
Williamsburg. 
York. 

Williamsburg. 
i< 

Elizabeth  City. 
Jamestown. 
Gloucester. 
Williamsburg. 


1800...  " 

1800...  " 

1803...  " 

1804...  Charles  City 


William  Wirt 1804... 

Nicholas  Faulcon 1804. ..Surry. 

John  B.  Seawall 18QS...  Gloucester. 

Alexander  D.  Gait 1808...  Williamsburg. 

Robert  Nelson 1808...  " 

Gawin  L.  Corbin 1810...  York. 

John  H.  Smith 1812. ..King  Sf  Queen. 

William  Armistead 1812 

William  Browne 1812...  Williamsburg. 


Chancellor. 

First    Governor    of    Vir- 
ginia of  that  name. 
U.  S.  Attorney  General. 


78 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


NAMES.  DATE  OP  ELECTION. 

Robert  G.  Scott ....1814... 

Thomas  Griffin 1814.. 

John  Tyler 1814.., 


Henry  Skipwith 1814.. 

William  H.Macon 1814... 

Thomas  G.  Smith 1814... 

John  C.  Pryor 1816... 

Charles  Everett 1817.. 

Rt.  Rev.  Rich.  C.  Moore... 1817.. 

Hugh  Nelson 1818... 

Rt.  Rev.  J.  S.  Ravenscroft.,1821.., 

John  D.  Watkins 1824... 

Robert  Stanard 1824... 

James  M.  Garnett 1824... 

Robert  B.  Taylor 1824... 

Joseph  Prentis 1824... 

Robert  McCandlish 182G... 

John  Page 1827... 

William  Robins 1828... 

mund  Ruffin 1833... 

Thomas  G.  Peachy 1833... 

Thomas  Martin 1833... 

Abel  P.  Upshur 1830'40... 

George  Blow 1833... 

Charles  F.  Osborne 1833... 

Edward  II.  Carmichael 1842... 

George  Loyall 1842... 

William  O.  Goode 1842... 

John  C.  Mercer 1844... 

John  B.  Christian 1844... 

Thomas  L.  Gholson 1844... 

John  S.  Millson 1844... 

•  lames  Lyons 1844... 

C«.lin  Clark.- 1845... 

John  E.  Shell 1846... 

Tot-bin  Kraxton L847... 

Ki.-lianl  K.  M<-ad<- 1847... 

William    P.«>nl \vaiv is  17... 

ll.-m-y   A.   Vftoe 

}\\.  iJ.-v.  William  Me*de...l848..- 

William  II.  Marfarlaml 

"I  r.  Sr-ott L848... 

Wiilon-lil.y  NYwfon 

Taylor 

IsJ'.i... 


RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Richmond. 

.  York. 

Charles  City Second  Gov.  of  that  name 

in  Va.,  Pros.  U.  S.,  Rec- 
tor, and  Chancellor  in 
1859-62. 

Williamsburg. 

New  Kent. 

Middlesex. 

Hampton. 

Albemarle. 

.  Richmond. 

Albemarle. 

Brunswick. 

New  Kent. 

Richmond. 

Essex. 

Norfolk. 

Williamsburg. 


Gloucester. 
Prince  George. 
Williamsburg. 
James  City. 
Northampton... 
York. 

Petersburg. 
Richmond. 
Norfolk. 
Mecklenburg. 
Williamsburg. 


Secretary  of  State. 


Petersburg. 

' 


Richmond. 
Gfloucetter* 
Brvntvrick. 

Kitnj   William. 
Petersburg. 

KlIKJ    1 1 II 1 1     <J 

(Imvnior  of  Vir-inin. 

Clark 

Hi'-hiium'l EteotOI  1^'''.»-71. 

riUe* 
Westmoreland, 

-//,-. 

f/ry. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


NAMES.  DATB  OF  ELECTION. 

William  B.  Harrison 1849.. 

Nathaniel  M.  Osborne .1851.. 

Robert  B.  Boiling 1851.. 

Rev.  George  Woodbridge.,1851.. 

Edward  T.  Tayloe 1851.. 

Otway  B.  Barraud 1852.. 

William  W.  Crump 1853.. 

David  May 1853.. 

Rt.  Rev.  John  Johns 1854.. 

Hugh  Blair  Grigsby 1855.. 

James  Lyons 1855.. 

George  W.  Lewis 1858.. 

Wm.  S.  Peachy 1866.. 

Rev.  E.  C.  Murdaugh 1866.. 

William  Lamb v.1867.. 

P.  Montagu  Thompson 1869.. 

Charles  S.  Stririgfellow 1869.. 

Robert  L.  Montague 1870.. 

Wm.  B.  Taliaferro 1870.. 

Dr.  A.  N.  Wellford 1870.. 

Rev.  J.  H.  D.  Wingfield...l871.. 
Rev.  Chas.  Minnegerode...l871. 

Warner  T.  Jones 1873. 

John  Goode,  Jr 1873. 


KESIDENCES. 

.Brandon. 

.Prince  George. 

.Petersburg. 

.Richmond. 

.King  George. 

.Norfolk. 

.Richmond. 

.Petersburg. 

.Fairfax. 

.Norfolk. 

.Richmond Rector  1871. 

..  Westmoreland. 

.  Williamsburg. 

.Prince  George. 

.Norfolk. 

.  Williamsburg. 

.Petersburg. 

.  Middlesex^ Ex-Lieut.  Gov.  of  Virginia- 

.  Gloucester. 
.Richmond  county. 
.  Petersburg. 
..Richmond  city. 
..Gloucester. 
..Norfolk. 


Colin  Clarke, 
William  Boulware, 
William  H.  Macfarland, 
Dr.  Edward  P.  Scott, 
William  B.  Harjison. 
Tazewell  Taylor, 
Hon.  Henry  A.  Wise, 
Rev.  George  Woodbridge, 


VISITORS    IN    1859. 

JOHN  TYLER,  Rector. 

Edward  T.  Tayloe, 


Dr.  Nathaniel  M.  Osborne, 
Judge  William  W.  Crump, 
David  May, 

Right  Rev.  John  Johns, 
George  W.  Lewis, 
Hugh  B.  Grigsby, 
James  Lyons. 


BUKSARS     SINCE     1735. 

NAMES.  DATE  OF  APPOINTMENT.  RESIDENCES. 

Rev.  Richard  Graham 1735 Williamsburg. 

John  Blair 1754 *' 

Robert  Miller 1772 

John  Carter 1776 Williamsburg. 

William  Pierce 1777 k' 

Rev.  Robert  Andrews 1790 " 

William  Coleman 1807 " 

Edmund  Christian 1824 " 

Tazewell  Taylor 1850 Norfolk. 


80 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


FACULTY, 

Including  Presidents,  Masters  or  Professors,  and  Teachers  in  the  Gram- 
mar Schools. 


PRESIDENTS. 

NAMES.  DATE  OP  APPOINTMENT. 

James  Blair,  D.  D 1692 Commissary. 

Rev.  William  Dawson 1743 Died  1752. 

Rev.  William  Stith 1752 Died  1755. 

Rev.  Thomas  Dawson 1755 Commissary. 

Rev.  William  Yates 1761 Died  1764. 

Rev.  James  Horrocks 1764 Died  1791. 

Rev.  John  Camm 1771 Commissary. 

Rt.  Rev.  James  Madison 1777 Died  1812. 

Rev.  John  Bracken 1812 

Dr.  John  Augustine  Smith 1814 

Rev.  Wm.  H.  Wilmer,  D.  D 1826 Died  1827. 

Rev.  Adam  P.  Empie,  D.  D 1827 

Thomas  R.  Dew 1836 Died  in  1846. 

Robert  Saunders 1847 Died  in  1868. 

Benjamin  S.  Ewell 1848 

Rt.  Rev.  John  Johns 1849 

Benj.  S.  Ewell 1854 


Died  1743. 


Died  1761. 


PROFESSORS. 


DATB  OF  APPOINTMENT.  REMARKS. 

1729 Professor  of  Oriental  Languages. 

1729 Professor  of  Divinity. 

1770 

1822 "  " 

1779 Professor  of  Law. 

...1800...,  "  " 


NAMES. 

Rev.  Francis  Fontaine 

Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates 

Rev.  John  Dixon 

Rev.  R.  Keith,  D.  D , 

Hon.  George  Wythe 

Judge  St.  George  Tucker 

Judge  William  Nelson 1804 

Robert  Nelson "  " 

Judge  James  Semple 1820 "  " 

J u. IgcN.  Beverly  Tucker 1833 " 

Judge  George  P.  Scarburgh isr,2 "  " 

Lurian  Minor 1S.V3 

Charles  Morris 1S51) u 

. Fames  McClnng 1779 Prof,  of  Anatomy  and  Medicine 

lli-v.  John    Kroeken 17M2 Profc.->nr  of  Huiuanity. 

Ii.-v.  K.  Keith is:" 

Dahncy  lin.wnc 1  *•_>(! u 


J.   Morgan  Sincad 1848 


CATALOGUE    OF    ALUMNI. 


81 


NAMES. 

Edwin  Taliaferro 

Edward  S.  Joynes 

Charles  Bellini 

L.  H.  Gerardin 

C.  de  La  Pena 

Thomas  K.  Dew 

George  Frederick  Holmes... 

Henry  A.  Washington 

Robert  J.  Morrison 

Rev.  William  'Dawson 

Rev.  Richard  Graham 

Jacob  Rowe 

Rev.  Johnson 

Rev.  Samuel  Henley 

Rev.  Robert  Andrews 

Archibald  C.  Peachy 

Rt.  Rev.  John  Johns,  D.  D., 

Rev.  Silas  Totten,  D.D 

Rev.  George  T.  Wilmer,  D. 
Rt.  Rev.  James  Madison — 

Dr.  John  McLean 

Dr.  Thomas  L.  Jones 

Dr.  Robert  Hare 

Dr.  P.  K.  Rogers 

William  B.  Rogers,  LL.  D. 

Dr.  John  Millington 

William  F.  Hopkins 

Rev.  Hugh  Jones 

Alexander  Irvine 

Joshua  Fry 

William  Small 

Rev.  Thomas  Gwatkin 

George  Blackburn 

Ferdinand  S.  Campbell 

Robert  Saunders 

Benjamin  S.  Ewell 

Thomas  T.  L.  Snead 

Thomas  P.  McCandlish , 


Frank  Preston. 


Rev.  L.  B.  Wharton 

Benjamin  S.  Ewell 

Richard  A.  Wise,  M.  D 

Rev.  James  Henderson 

Robert  Gatewood 

James  M.  Wise 

Thomas  T.  L.  Sncad 

T.  P.  McCandlish 

6 


DATE  OF  APPOINTMENT.  BEMABKS. 

1858 Professor  Latin  and  Latin  Lit., 

and  the  Romance  Languages. 

1858 Prof.  Greek  &  Greek  Lit.  &  Ger. 

1779 Professor  of  Modern  Languages. 

1803 "  "  " 

1829 "  "  " 

18 — Professor  of  Political  Economy. 

1846 Prof,  of  History  and  Polit.  Econ. 

1849 "  "  " 

1858 "  "  " 

1729 Prof,  of  Moral  and  Intel.  Phil. 

1749 "  "  " 

1758 

17G7 

1770 

1777 

1847 

,  LL.D..1849 

1849 

,  D 1869 

1774 Prof,  of  Nat.  Phil.  &  Chemistry. 

1812 "     "         " 

1814 "     " 

1818 "     " 

1819 "     " 

1829 "     " 

1836 "     " 

1849 "     " 

172- Professor  of  Mathematics. 

1729 

175- a  " 

1758 

1770 

1805 

1811 

1833 

1848 

1869 

1869 Professor  of  Latin,  French  and 

Roman,  and  French  History. 

1869 Professor  of  Greek,  German,  and 

of  Grecian  and  German  History. 

1870 "  "  " 

, 1869 Professor  of  Natural  Philosophy. 

, 1869 Professor  of  Chemistry. 

1792 Adjunct  Professor  of  Humanity. 

1851 Adjunct  Prof,  of  Mathematics. 

1855 "        "  " 

1856 ic         "  l' 

1860 Adjunct  Prof,  of  Languages. 


82  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES  OF  PROFESSORS, 
The  Departments  in  which  they  Instructed  not  being  known. 

Joshua  Fry 1729 

Rev.  William  Stith 1731 

Edward  Ford 1738 

John  Graeme 1741 

Rev.  Thomas  Dawson 1738 

William  Preston 1752 

Rev.  John  Camm 1752 

MASTERS  OF  THE  GRAMMAR  SCHOOL. 

Rev.  William  Robinson 1742 

William  Davis 1758 

Rev.  Gronow  Owen 1758 

Rev.  William  Webb 1760 

Rev.  James  Horrocks 1762 

Wm.  R.  Garrett 18G6 

T.  J.  Stubbs , 1868 

J.  Wilmer  Turner 1869 

Chas.  S.  Dod 1873 

MASTERS  OF  THE  INDIAN  SCHOOL. 

John  Fox 1720 

Robert  Barrett 1737 

Rev. Emmanuel  Jones...  ...1755 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  83 


STUDENTS. 


STUDENTS  AT  COLLEGE  BEFORE  1720. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCIES.  IIBMARM. 

John  Allen Surry. 

William  Bassett New  Kent. 

Richard  Bland Prince  George. 

George  Braxton King  and  Queen. 

William  Brent Stafford. 

Carter  Burwell Gloucester. 

Robert  Burwell " 

Lewis  Burwell " 

William  Byrd Charles  City. 

Har wood  C  ary Warwick. 

Henry  Gary u 

Henry  Fitzhugh Stafford. 

Peter  Hegeman " 

Thomas  Lee 

Carter  Page Rosewell,  Glou.  co...Son  of  Mann  Page. 

John  Page "  "  ' 

Matthew  Page "  " 

Mann  Page "  " 

Ralph  Page "  " 

Robert  Page "  " 

Edward  Randolph Turkey  Island, 

Henrico  county... Son  of  Wm.  Randolph. 

Isham  Randolph "      Ad.  Gen.  of  Col. 

John  Randolph "  "      Treas.  of  Col. 

Richard  Randolph "         "         " 

Thomas  Randolph "  "  " 

William  Randolph "  "  " 

Christopher  Robinson.. ..Middlesex. 

John  Robinson King  and  Queen. 

Ralph  Wormley Rosegill,  Middlesex... Son  of  Ralph  Wormley. 


STUDENTS  AT  COLLEGE  FROM  1720  TO  1735. 

James  Blair Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  A.  Blair. 

John  Blair "          Judge  S.  Court  U.  S. 

Carter  Burwell James  City. 

Archibald  Cary Ampthill. 


84  CATALOGUE  OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

Richard  Gary York. 

Wilson  Gary Warwick Son  of  Miles  Cary. 

Miles  Gary "  "  " 

W  ill iam  Churchill Middlesex. 

Bowler  Cocke Bremo,  Henri co. 

Richard  Corbin Middlesex. 

John  Edloe Charles  City. 

Francis  Lightfoot Sandy  Point,  Charles  City. 

Philip  Lightfoot .   " 

Benjamin  Harrison Berkeley,  Ch.  City. ..Son  of  Benj.  Harrison,  Signer 

Declaration  Independence. 

Richard  Kennon Charles  City. 

Bernard  Moore King  William . 

Robert  Carter  Nicholas.. Williamsburg. 

Beverly  Randolph Chatsworth,  Hen Son  of  Wm.Randolph,Gov.of  Va 

Peter  Randolph "  "    "  " 

William  Randolph "  "    ...... 

Beverly  Randolph Williamsburg Son  of  Sir  J.  Randolph. 

John  Randolph "  

Peyton  Randolph "  "  First  President 

American  Congress. 

Richard  Randolph Curls,  Henrico Son  of  Richard  Randolph. 

William  Randolph Tuckahoe,  Gooch Son  of  Thomas  Randolph. 

Benjamin  Robinson Caroline. 

Christopher  Robinson...  .Middlesex. 

Robert  Tucker Norfolk. 

Benjamin  Waller Williamsburg. 

Ralph  Wormley Middlesex Son  of  Ralph  Wormley. 

George  Wythe Elizabeth  City Chancellor. 

John  Carter Corotoman Son  of  Robert  Carter,  (known  as 

King  Carter.) 

Robert  Carter Sabine  Hall " 

George  Carter Nomini "  " 

Lam  ion  Carter Cleve  

Edward  Carter Blenheim 

FROM  1738  TO  1752. 

Alexander  Champion Jamestown. 

Roscow  Cole Gloucester. 

Mordee:ii  Cook <;ionee.-ler. 

Tin  HUM.-  hawson William-burg. 

Warwirk. 

n.-iijiimin  I'M  wards Southampton. 

F  ram-is  Fontaine Williamsluirg. 

John  Ford 

Alexander  <  in  me 

John  Graeme 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  85 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  BEMABKS. 

Matthew  Hubard Williamsburg. 

James  Maury ,. Albemarle. 

William  Skipwith Petersburg Son  of  Sir  William  Shipwith. 

Peyton  Skipwith "         "  "  " 

1752. 

Charles  Carter Lancaster  county Son  of  John  Carter  of  Corotman. 

Edward  Carter "  "  "  " 

Wilson  Miles  Gary Warwick Son  of  Wilson  Cary. 

Augustine  Cooke Gloucester  county 

Severn  Eyre Northampton  co. 

John  Fox Gloucester. 

James  Bray  Johnson James  City. 

John  Page Gloucester  county. 

Christopher  Robinson.... Middlesex  county. 

John  Whiting Gloucester  county. 

Peter  Beverly  Whiting...  " 

Edward  Wilcox .....Charles  City. 

1753. 

Jaquelin  Ambler Jamestown . 

James  Armistead 

Robert  Armistead York  county. 

Vivion  Brooking 

WUson  Cary Elizabeth  Cityco Son  of  Miles  Cary. 

Samuel  Cobbs 

Giles  Hawkins 

Rice  Hooe King  George  co. 

John  Lomax " 

Lunsford  Lomax " 

John  Kelson York  county. 

George  Plater Maryland. 

William  Row Hampton. 

WiUiam  Selden " 

Daniel  Sweeny Elizabeth  City. 

John  Turberville Westmoreland. 

John  Webb New  Kent. 

1754. 

William  Ballard York  county. 

Peter  Bland Prince  George. 

Theoderic  Bland "  Col.  in  Con.  Army,  and  Member 

of  Congress. 

James  Whitall  Bradby...Surry. 
William  Browne ....James  City Son  of  Gen.  Browne. 


86 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


RESIDENCES. 

Walter  Coles Henrico. 

James  Fontaine Hanover. 

Carter  Harrison Berkeley,ChCity, 

Henry  Harrison " 

Nathaniel  Harrison " 

Kobert  Harrison " 

Kichard  Hewitt 

James  Hubard Williamsburg. 

James  Marye Spotsylvania. 

Peter  Marye " 

John  Matthews 

William  Meredith Hanover. 

Clement  Read Williamsburg , 

James  Read "          

Theoderic  Munford Charles  City. 

Thomas  Price Hanover. 

Thomas  Reade 

William  Russell York. 

William  Stith...  ...Brunswick... 


.Son  of  Benj.  Harrison, 


.Son  of  Thomas  Read. 

tl  U 


.Nephew  of  Rev.  Mr.  Stith,  Pres. 
William  and  Mary  College. 


Richard  Taliaferro King  George. 

William  Taliaf erro " 

Henry  Talman 

John  Tenant Caroline. 

Robert  Throckmorton Gloucester. 

Charles  Mynn  Thruston..        " 

John  Tyler James  City... 


.Officer  in  Con.  Army. 

.First  Gov.  of  Va.,  Marshall  un- 
der Col.  Gov.,  U.  S.  District 
Judge,  son  of  John  Tjrler. 


Robert  Tucker Norfolk. 

James  Wallace Elizabeth  City. 

Robert  Wallace " 

Foster  Webb...,  ...New  Kent. 


INDIANS  AT  THE  INDIAN  SCHOOL  IN  1754. 


William  Cooke, 
John  Langston, 
Charles  Murphy, 


William  Sqnim-1. 


Gideon 

•John   Montour. 

Thomas  Sampson, 


1755. 

Bowles  Armistead.... Gloucester. 

John  Armistead " 

Kdmimd  I'.erkeluy Middlesex. 

Henry  Beverly Spot>ylv:mi:i Son  of  Mo.  P.everly. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


87 


NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

Benjamin  Bryan. 

William  Buckner Gloucester. 

Nathaniel  Burwell "         Son  of  Col.  R.  Burwell. 

John  Esten. 

Francis  Meriwether Hanover. 

Nicholas  Meriwether " 

Mathew  Moody Williamsburg. 

Richard  Spann. 
John  Stringer. 

1756. 

Thomas  Adams Henrico. 

William  Allen Stirry  Son  of  John  Allen. 

William  Armistead Gloucester. 

Carter  Braxton King  and  Queen Son  of  Geo.  Braxton,  Signer  of 

Declaration  of  Independence. 

George  Braxton "  "      Son  of  Geo.  Braxton. 

Lacky  Collier Elizabeth  City. 

John  Elliott. 
Seaton  Elliott. 

Richard  Gist Buckingham. 

James  Hardyman Charles  City. 

Daniel  McCarty ......King  George. 

1757. 

Hudson  Allen James  City. 

William  Barrett " 

Lawrence  Battaile C aroiine . 

Lewis  Burwell Gloucester Son  of  Lewis  Burwell,  President 

of  the  Council. 

Nicholas  Collins. 

Richard  Eppes Chesterfield. 

William  Finnic Amelia. 

Benjamin  Harrison Surry Son  of  Ben.  Harrison  of  Wake- 
field. 

Nathaniel  Harrison "  "  "  " 

Mathew  Holt Williamsburg. 

Gronow  Owen "  Son  of  Rev.  Mr.  Gronow  Owen. 

Robert  Owen "  "  u  " 

Robert  Riddell 

Francis  Warrington Elizabeth  City Son  of  Rev.  John  Warrington. 

William  Webb New  Kent. 

1758. 

Robert  Armistead Gloucester. 

Starkey  Armistead Elizabeth  City, 

Westwood  Armistead " 


88  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  BESIDENCES. 

John  Aylett King  William. 

Charles  Binns. 

Kichard  Gary Warwick. 

Dudley  Digges Williamsburg Son  of  Dudley  Digges. 

Arthur  Emerson Norfolk. 

Benjamin  Harrison Prince  George Son  Col.  N.  Harrison  of  Brandon 

Stephen  Mitchell York. 

Hugh  Nelson " 

1753. 

Stirling  Edmonds Brunswick. 

Jesse  Ewell Prince  William Son  of  Bertrand  Ewell. 

Thomas  W.  Ewell " 

Benjamin  Grymes Middlesex. 

Charles  Grymes " 

James  Grymes " 

Philip  Ludwell  Grymes..        "          Son  of  Ph.  Grymes,  of  Brandon. 

Simon  Hollier Elizabeth  City. 

Thomas  Jefferson Albemarle President  United  States.    Son  of 

Peter  Jefferson. 

Warner  Lewis Warner  Hall,  Glo Son  of  Warren  Lewis. 

John  Randolph Curls,  Henrico Son  of  Col.  R.  Randolph. 

1760. 

E  d ward  Bland Prince  George . 

James  Bland 

William  Bland 

George  Byrd. 

John  Cary Warwick. 

William  Cole. 

William  Digges Warwick. 

John  Doncastle Maryland. 

Burr  Harrison Prince  William. 

Charles  Harrison Charles  City Gen'l  in  Rev.  war.    Son  Benj. 

Harrison. 

John  Hubard Williamsburg. 

William  Hubard 

Walter  Jones Westmoreland. 

Rodham  Kenner 

William  Mallory Elizabeth  City. 

William  Hassle New  Kent. 

Thomas  Massie " 

.  Uiirgcs-;  Smith Nortlmmbrrlimd. 

(Jrrrunl  Smith 

John  Smith 

Philip  Smith 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  89 

NAMES.  BESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Robert  Spotswood Orange Grandson  of  Gov.  Spotswood. 

John  Taze well Williamsburg. 

William  West West  Point,  K'g  Wm. 

William  Westwood Hampton. 

William  Whiting Gloucester. 

1761. 

William  Brodnax Brunswick. 

James  Emerson Norfolk. 

Francis  Eppes Prince  George. 

Edward  Hack Norfolk. 

Charles  Hansford Warwick. 

Austin  Moore King  William. 

Bernard  Moore 

Benjamin  Kobinison King  &  Queen. 

Henry  Robinson " 

John  Robinson " 

John  Thompson Petersburg. 

Champion  Travis Jamestown Son  of  E.  C.  Travis. 

Augustine  Tabb Gloucester. 

1762. 

William  Colson Berkeley. 

John  Edmonds Brunswick. 

Edward  Harwood Warwick. 

Samuel  Harwood " 

Dabney  Carr Albemarle. 

James  McClung Williamsburg. 

Robert  Moseley Norfolk. 

Edward  Moseley " 

John  Nicholas James  City Son  John  Nicholas,  Seven  Isl'd. 

E dmund  Pendleton.  „ . ,»'.  Caroline Nephew  of  Judge  Pendleton. 


Edmund  Ruffin..^ Prince  Geoi 

John  Hyde  Saunders C  umberland. 

John  Swann Gloucester. 

Charles  Tomkies " 

Bartholomew  Yates. ......  Middlesex. 

Edm'nd  Randolph  Yates        " 

1763. 

Archibald  Boiling Chesterfield. 

Edward  Boiling " 

Beverly  D  ixon Williamsburg. 

William  Fleming... Chesterfield Judge  Court  of  Appeals. 

George  Holden Son  of  G.  H.  Holden. 

William  Moulston 

7 


90  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES*.  BESIDENCES.  BEMARKS. 

Thomas  kelson ..York Gov.  and  Son  of  Prest.  Nelson 

of  Council. 

John  Page Rosewell,  Glou Son  of  Mann  Page,  Gov.  of  Va* 

William  Reynolds York. 

Edward  Smith Gloucester Son  of  John  Smith. 

John  Walker Orange. 

1764. 

William  Clugh 

Thomas  Hughes Gloucester Son  of  Gab.  Hughes. 

William  Leigh King  William Son  of  Fer.  Leigh. 

Mann  Page Gloucester Son  of  Hon.  J.  Page* 

Mann  Page Mansfield,  Spotsyl....Son  of  Mann  Page,  of  Rosewell, 

Gloucester. 

John  Perrin Gloucester. 

Thomas  Read "          Son  of  Rev.  Mr.  Read. 

Bathurst  Skelton Hanover. 

Henry  Whiting Golucester Son  of  Fran.  Whiting. 

William  Yates Williarnsburg Son  of  Rev.  Wm.  Yates.. 

John  Sampson An  Indian. 

1765. 

John  Tayloe  Griffin King  &  Queen. 

John  Hughes. 
William  Marshall. 

George  Meredith Hanover. 

Thomas  Necks. 

John  Savage Accomac. 

Gregory  Smith. 

William  Thompson Son  of  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson. 

JohnWilcox Charles  City. 

Lewis  Willis Gloucester. 

John  Tauhaw An  Indian. 

1766. 

Carter  Burwell Cart  Grove,  J.  City. ..Son  of  Col.  C.  But-well. 

Nathaniel  Burwell "  " 

Walter  King  Cole Williamsburg. 

Peter  Lyons Studley,  Hanover Son  of  Judge  Peter  Lyons. 

Robert  Carter  Nicholas.. Williamsburg Son  of  the  Treasurer. 

Edmund  Randolph "  U.S.  Att.  Gen.  and  Sec.  of  State. 

Son  of  John  Randolph. 
William  Shelden  Sclater..York. 

Francis  Scott Prince  Edward Son  of  Col.  Th.  Scott. 

Gustave  Scott. 
Charles  Soy«-r. 
AbnerWaugh Orange Son  of  Alex. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  91 


1767. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARK 

John  Burwell. 
John  Eustace. 

John  Gregory King  and  Queen Son  of  R.  Gregory. 

Richard  Gregory "  "  " 

William  Jennings Hampton. 

Edward  Jones Gloucester Son  of  Richard  Jones. 

Strother  Jones Augusta Son  of  G.  Jones. 

James  Keith. 

William  Kennon Charles  City. 

George  Mercer Fredericksburg. 

James  Mercer " 

John  Mercer. 

1768. 

Joseph  Bridger. Nansemond. 

David  Boy d Mecklenburg. 

Samuel  Camp James  City. 

Isaac  Coles Richmond. 

Edward  Convers. 

Thomas  Davis Charles  City. 

James  Maury Albemarle . 

Mathew  Maury u 

Robert  Robinson York. 

Starkey  Robinson " 

Jorni  Travis Jamestown Son  of  Ed.  C.  Travis. 

Charles  Tucker Norfolk. 

Travis  Tucker " 

1769. 

John  Byrd Westover Son  of  Hon.  William  Byrd. 

Thomas  Byrd "        "        "  " 

David  Copland Cumberland. 

Nicholas  Cabell Amherst Son  of  William  Cabell. 

John  Leigh King  William. 

David  May Prince  George. 

Nathaniel  Nelson York ,Son  of  Hon.  William  Nelson. 

Robert  Nelson " "        "  " 

William  Nelson "     "        "  " 

Clement  Read Middlesex Son  of  Dr.  Reade,  of  Urbana. 

JohnReade "          "        "  " 

Samuel  Shield.. York. 

Robort  Mash An  Indian. 

George  Sampson 


92  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


1770. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

William  Buckner Gloucester. 

Maximilian  Calvert Norfolk Son  of  Maximilian  Calvert. 

John  Cocke Surry Son  of  Col.  K.  Cocke. 

James  Dudley Warwick Son  of  William  Dudley. 

Thomas  Dixon Williamsburg Son  of  Kev.  Mr.  Dixon. 

William  Dixon "  "      "  " 

Thompson  Mason Fairfax. 

WiUiam  Page "      Son  of  Hon.  J.  Page. 

Charles  Read. 

Thomas  Smith Gloucester Son  of  Capt.  John  Smith. 

John  Taylor Caroline United  States  Senator  and  mover 

of  resolutions  1798-9  in  House 
of  Delegates  of  Virginia. 

James  Walker Orange. 

Ren  j.  Carter  Waller Williamsburg Son  of  Benjamin  Waller. 

John  Waller....  "  "  " 


1771. 

Richard  Bland Prince  George Son  of  Richard  Bland,  Jr. 

Samuel  Boush Norfolk Son  of  Samuel  Boush. 

William  Boush "      "  " 

Robert  Brough Hampton Son  of  Robert  Brough. 

Jonathan  Calvert Norfolk Son  of  Maximilian  Calvert. 

John  Clayton Gloucester Son  of  Jasper  Clayton. 

ColeDigges Warwick Son  of  Col.  W.  Digges. 

John  Dixon Williamsburg .Son  of  Rev.  Mr.  Dixon. 

Dolphin  Drew Isle  of  Wight. 

Beverly  Fitzhugh King  George Son  of  Wm. Fitzhugh  of  Marmion 

*Daniel  Fitzhugh "  "  " 

Theodoric  Fitzhugh "  "  "  « 

John  Gibbons York Son  of  Th.  Gibbons. 

James  Innes "    Attorney  General  of  Virginia. 

George  Kendall Accomac. 

James  Madison Augusta. 

Walker  Maury Willianisbiirg. 

Henry  Montfort North  ( 'arolina Sou  of  John  Mont  fort. 

Mohn  Pain- Son  of  Hon.  .1.  Pa-v. 

Thoina-  IVvton <;  lour. --in- Son  of  Sir  John  Peyton. 

P.cvcrly  Randolph rh:iN\\orili.  Il.-n <:ovornor   of    Virginia.     Son   of 

Col.  IV«»T  Randolph. 

Peyton  Randolpli Wilton,  Hcnrico Son  of  William  Randolph. 

Philip   Roolrs \uiMi-ta Son  of  Philip  Roolr*. 

Tli-.  'irk.-d   Mms1  urn- DM- .,rl-m:il   inriiilnTM  of  the  J'ln   Ik-la   Kappa 

Society,  or«  •'•^»T  1MM,  1776. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  93 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  KEMABK8. 

David  Stewart King  George. 

William  Stevenson York Son  of  W.  W.  Stevenson. 

Griffin  Stith Northampton Son  of  Griffin  Stith. 

Edward  Tarry Mecklenburg. 

Robert  Throckmorton..., Gloucester Son  of  Kobert  Throckmorton. 

John  Thruston " 

John  Watson "          Son  of  Major  Watson. 

John  Whiting. 

Mathew  Whiting Prince  William Son  of  Mathew  Whiting,  of  Bull 

Run. 

Willis  Wilkinson Nansemond Son  of  Willis  Wilkinson. 

James  Wormley Middlesex Son  of  Ralph  Wormley. 

John  Nettles An  Indian. 

1772. 

Nafhaniel  Burwell Son  of  James  Burwell. 

Bobert  Burton Albemarle Son  of  William  Burton. 

George  Carter Shirley Son  of  Charles  Carter. 

John  Hill  Carter.. "       "  " 

Landon  Carter Sabine  Hall,  in  Rich- 
mond county Son  of  Robert  Carter. 

Michael  Christian Northampton Son  of  M.  Christian. 

Thomas  Clay" Cumberland Son  of  Charles  Clay. 

Langnorne  Dade King  George Son  of  Horatio  Dade. 

Joseph  Eggleston Amelia Officer  in  Continental  Army. 

William  Fontaine. 

John  Goodrich Isle  of  Wight. 

James  Heath Northumberland. 

Randolph  Jefferson Albemarle Son  of  Peter  Jefferson. 

John  Leland. 

William  Nelson York Son  of  Th.  Nelson,  Jr. 

George  Nicholas Williamsburg Son  of  R.  C.  Nicholas,  Treasu- 
rer of  the  Colony. 

Carter  Page...... Gloucester Son  of  Hon.  J.  Page. 

William  Smelt King  and  Queen. 

William  Steptoe Middlesex. 

Thomas  Tarpley. 

William  Tarpley. 

Todd Isle  of  Wight. 

St.  George  Tucker Williamsburg Son  of  Henry  Tucker,  Bermuda. 

Judge  in  State  Court. 

John  Waddell. 
,  John  White King  William Son  of  Rev.  William  White. 

David  Wright Princess  Anne Son  of  Christ.  Wright. 

1773. 

Robert  Baylor Caroline Aid  to  General  Washington. 


94  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  BK8IDENCE8.  REMARKS. 

Samuel  Jordan  Cabell...Amherst Son  of  William  Cabell,  of  Union 

Hill. 

Thomas  Evans Eastern  Shore Judge  State  Court. 

James  Park  Farley Jamaica. 

Benjamin  Harrison Brandon Son  of  Nathan '1  Harrison.  Mem- 
ber of  first  Ex.  Council  of  Va. 
under  its  first  Constitution. 

Charles  Hay Williamsburg. 

Emanuel  Jones " 

John  Lewis Gloucester .Son  of  Warner  Lewis. 

*  Alexander  Mason 

John  Nelson York Col.  in  the  Army  during  the 

Revolution. 

Bret  Randolph Powhatan Son  of  Bret  Randolph. 

Robert  Randolph Chatsworth Son  of  Col.  P.  Randolph. 

Thomas  Smith. 

1774. 

Thomas  Heath Northumberland Son  of  Thomas  Heath. 

John  Mayo Cumberland Son  of  John  Mayo. 

WilliamMayo " " 

Robert  Mitchell Spotsylvania. 

Thomas  Mitchell "  « 

Geo.  Viscount  Fincastle..Williamsburg Son  of  Earl  of  Diminore. 

Hon.  Alexander  Murray..          "  " 

Hon  John  Murray " " 

Ryland  Randolph Curls,  Henrico Son  of  Richard  Randolph. 

James  Roscow Warwick. 

Mohn  Starke...  ...Westmoreland...      ...Son  of  Mrs.  Frances  Starke. 


1775. 

William  Alexander Fairfax. 

Booth  Armistead Elizabeth  City. 

Henry  Ashton Caroline. 

John  Bank! lead Westmoreland. 

*George  Braxton King  William Son  of  Cartn-  P.raxton. 

Wilson  Cary Warwick Son  of  Col.  W.  Miles  Cary. 

Michael  King Hampton Son  of  Henry  King. 

Mohn  Marshall F:iu<|iii»T Chief  Justice  United  States. 

.John  Frauds  M<»rcer Stafford Governor  of  Maryland. 

James  McMillan. 
William  M.-Millan. 

.J'liii'-s  Monroe \Vf-st mon-land  President  «.f  the   I'liiied 

Thomas  Nelson York Son  of  Gcn'l  Thoma<  NYIsou. 

John  Stewart King  George. 

TaM> Warwfek Sen  of  .John  TaM>. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  95 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  BEMAEKS. 

Robert  Wallace "       Son  of  James  Wallace. 

Ephraim  Worthington... Maryland. 

George  Sampson An  Indian. 

Reubin  Sampson 

1776. 

Robert  Boiling Petersburg. 

Otway  Byrd Westover Son  of  William  Byrd. 

Dandridge  Claiborne King  William. 

Charles  Carter Shirley Son  of  Charles  Carter. 

Charles  Cocke ..Bremo,  Henrico Son  of  Col.  B.  Cocke. 

*Hartwell  Cocke "  "  " 

William  Cocke "  "  " 

Edward  Digges. 

Joseph  Eggleston Amelia Member  of  Congress. 

Carter  B.  Harrison Berkeley,  Ch.  City...        "  " 

*Isaac  Hill. 

James  Lyons Studley,  Hanover Son  of  Judge  Lyons. 

Robert  Nicholson Yorktown. 

Robert  Page North  End,  Glou Son  of  John  Page,  Major  in  the 

army  during  the  Revolution. 

John  Roberts Culpeper. 

David  Meade  Randolph..Curls,  Henrico Son  of  Richard  Randolph. 

Richard  Randolph "  "  " 

Robert  Saunders Williamsburg Son  of  John  Saunders. 

Dennis  Smelt. 

Armistead  Smith ..Gloucester Son  of  Capt.  John  Smith. 

Granville  Smith Louisa. 

Mons.  Baubee An  Indian. 

James  Gunn " 

Edmund  Sampson '. 

The  following  Students,  as  appears  from  the  "Virginia  Historical  Register," 
left  College  during  the  Revolution  to  join  the  American  Army: 

Robert  Boiling,  John  F.  Mercer, 

Nathaniel  Burwell,  James  Monroe, 

Otway  Byrd,  William  Nelson, 

Charles  Carter,  Robert  Nicholson. 

George  Carter,  Carter  Page, 

Dandridge  Claiborne,  Robert  Page, 

Charles  Cocke,  David  Meade  Randolph, 

William  Cocke,  Edmund  Randolph, 

Langhorne  Dade,  Peyton  Randolph, 

Edward  Digges,  Richard  Randolph, 

Joseph  Eggleston,  John  Roberts, 

Thomas  Evans,  Robert  Saunders, 

Carter  B.  Harrison,  Granville  Smith, 
James  Lyons. 


96  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

1777. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Philip  Allen. 
Joseph  Bilhip. 

Carter  Braxton King  William. 

Corbin  Braxton " 

John  Briggs. 
Frederick  Bryan. 

Archibald  Campbell Westmoreland. 

Philip  Fitzhugh Stafford. 

Mordccai  Gregory ..Gloucester. 

Frederick  Hearn. 

*John  Heath Northumberland. 

Thomas  Lee. 
Fielding  Lewis. 
Thomas  Lewis. 
Henry  Nicholson. 

Joseph  Prentis Williamsburg State  Judge. 

James  Ramsey. 
James  Ruffin. 

Stalke. 

*John  Swaun. 

Peter  Whiting Son  of  Thomas  Whiting. 

1778. 

John  Dandriclge. 
Thomas  Macon. 
*John  Morrison. 

fLe wis  Littlepage Hanover. 

William  Payne Fauquier. 

William  Starke. 

John  Stuart. 

*Bushrod  Washington... Westmoreland Judge  S.  Court  United  States. 

1779. 
John  Crawley. 
J.  11,-wlitt. 

Mite Winchester. 

*J«lin  \ivi>on Norfolk. 

Thomas  Kootcs Augusta. 

Daniel  Scott. 
Thomas  AN 

1780. 

(  hrNtophor  Robinson. ...Virginia Father  of  Chief  .lust  ire.  Sir  ,Ino. 

who  left  College  to  join  r,.-v.-rly  Kobi:. 

Col.  Simcoe's  n  -inn  nt. 

t  LewlH  Littlepage  was  attache  to  Spanish  Mission,  familiar  at  the  French  Coin;,  s.-nt  on  a 

mlH-sloii  to  Kusslii,  and  became  a  favorite  of  the  Eniprc 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 


97T 


1776   TO   1781. 


NAMES.  HESIDENCES. 

*  John  Allen.... Suriy. 

Kichard  Baker Southampton. 

*Thomas  W.  Balendine. 
*James  J.  Beckly. 

Harden  Burnley Hanover. 

*Richard  Booker Ameh'a. 

*Paxton  Bowdoin .Northampton. 

*Daniel  Carroll  Brent...  Mary  land. 

George  Brent Stafford. 

*Johii  Brown. 

Joseph  Cabell Amherst 

*Landon  Cabell...  " 


BEMAKtfS. 


Son  of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell. 

Son  of  William  Cabell,  Union 

Hill. 

Cabell "        "  " 

Robert  Carter Shirley Son  of  Charles  Carter. 

Edward  Carter "     "  " 

Thomas  Clements. 

Hartwell  Cocke Surry . 

*Thomas  Cocke Prince  George. 

Littleton  Eyre Northampton. 

William  B.  Giles Amelia Governor  of  Virginia  and  United 

States  Senator. 

Thomas  Hall Louisa. 

*Samuel  Hardy. 

*Henry  Hill King  and  Queen. 

*John  Jones. 

Thomas  Lee Westmoreland. 

*Richard  Bland  Lee " 

*William  Madison Williamsburg Son  of  Bishop  Madison. 

Stephen  T.  Mason Fairfax. 

*John  Moore. 

William  Kelson Charles  City Professor  of  Law  in  William  and 

Mary  College,  and  Judge. 
Elisha  Parmele. 

*  William  Pierce James  City. 

*Spencer  Roane King  and  Queen Judge  Court  of  Appeals. 

*Thomas  Savage Accomac. 

Peyton  Short.. Surry Son  of  Col.  Short. 

*William  Short "    "  " 

Armistead  Smith. 
Thomas  Smith. 

*  Archibald  Stewart Judge  and  Member  of  Congress. 

*John  Stewart King  George. 

*William  Stewart. 

*William  Stith ...  ...  Brunswick. 


98 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 


1783. 

NAMES.      .  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Ludwell  Lee,  A.  B Son  of  Richard  Henry  Lee. 

John  Barrett. 

Paul  Carrington Judge  Court  of  Appeals. 

1785. 

William  Harwood Warwick. 

Thomas  Hubard Williamsburg. 

Charles  Leland. 

John  Minor Hanover. 

Francis  Preston Montgomery. 

Merit  M.  Robinson Isle  of  Wight. 

Richard  N.  Venable Prince  Edward. 

John  Wickham Williamsburg. 

1787. 
Mathew  Page. 

1785  TO   1790. 

P.  Baker Southampton. 

James  Breckinridge Botetourt .Member  of  Congress,  U.  S.  Sena- 
tor, and  Attorney  General. 

Alexander  Campbell Richmond United  States  District  Attorney. 

Peter  Carr Albemarle Son  of  Dabney  Can*. 

Turner  Dixon Westmoreland. 

Nicholas  Faulcon Surry. 

Benjamin  Harrison Mt.  Any,  Pr.  Geo. 

William  Marshall Fauquier. 

Hugh  Nelson York Member  of  Congress. 

Thomas  Newton Norfolk "  " 

William  S.  Peachy Amelia. 

William  Tyler Prince  William. 


Richard  Goode. 

John  Grillm... 


Humus  Randolph... 

Richard   II.  Yanrcv. 


1790. 

Son  of  Judge  Cyrus  Griflin.    U. 

S.  ,ln<lg«'. 

...  .Goochland Son  of  Thoma-  Isham  Randolph. 

...Louisa. 


1791. 

John  linu-kcn William-bur^ Son  of  lli-v.  .1.  I'.rarkcn. 

Lit.  YV.  T:i/.-ur)l.  A.  II.... James  City (Jovi-rnurof  Virginia  ami  I'nit.-d 

iitor. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  99 


1792. 

NAMES.  KESIDENOES.  KEMABKS. 

Robert  Bannister Dinwiddie. 

Carter  Burwell James  City Son  of  Armistead  Burwell. 

Edwin  Burwell "          "  " 

Nathaniel  Harrison Prince  George . 

Humphrey  Harwood Warwick. 

John  Page. 

John  Randolph Roanoke,  Charlotte... Son  of  John  Randolph.    United 

States  Senator. 

John  Stith King  George. 

John  Thompson Petersburg Author  of  Curtius. 

1793. 

*Wm.  H.  Cabell,  L.  B Amherst Son  of  Col.  Nicholas  Cabell  and 

Governor  of  Va.,  and  Presi- 
dent Court  of  Appeals. 

Samuel  Carr Albemarle Son  of  Dabney  Carr. 

John  Dangerfield Essex. 

Phil  Grymes Middlesex. 

John  Hancock. 

George  Keith  Taylor Dinwiddie Appointed  Judge  by  Jno .  Adams 

Robert  B.  Taylor Norfolk General  in  war  of  1812. 

1794. 

John  Alison Petersburg. 

William  Crawford. 

Henry  Hook. 

Lewis  Warrington Williamsburg Commodore  in  U.  S.  Navy. 

1795. 

Jerman  Baker Chesterfield. 

William  B.  Banks Stafford Judge  in  State  Court. 

John  W.  Foushee Richmond. 

George  Greenhow Williamsburg. 

Joseph  Hornsby " 

Hugh  Mercer Fredericksburg. 

John  Norfleet Southampton. 

Thomas  Ruffln King  William. 

Miles  Selden Henrico. 

Peyton  Southall Warwick. 

John  D.  Watkins New  Kent. 

John  Wyatt Charlotte. 

*  The  names  of  those  Students  on  whom  Academic  Degrees  have  been  conferred,  will,  to- 
gether with  the  Degrees,  be  hereafter  put  first  in  the  different  years. 


100 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 


1790  TO   1795. 


NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

John  Allay. 

Nathaniel  Bannister Dinwidclie. 

George  Cabell 

Henry  Galloway Amherst . 

Kobert  Galloway Amherst. 

John  Campbell. 

Fortunatus  Corley 

Hume  Field Brunswick . 

Edmund  Hankins James  City. 

David  Holmes Winchester 

Archibald  Magill " 

John  Mercer Fredericksburg . 

James  Murdaugh Nansemond. 

James  P.  Preston Montgomery  .... 

Archibald  Robertson Richmond 

Thos.  Boiling  Robertson,        "         


Bennet  Taylor Isle  of  Wight. 

William  Tennant Westmoreland. 

Lewis  Wolfe. 


Son  of  Colonel  Nicholas  Cabell. 


District  Attorney. 

.Judge  Court  of  Appeals. 
.Son  of  General  Hugh  Mercer. 

.Governor  of  Virginia. 

.Son  of  W.  Robertson. 

"  "  Moved  to 

Louisiana,  and  was  its  first  rep- 
resentative in  U.  S.  Congress, 
Governor  and  U.  S.  Judge. 


1796. 


Carter  B.  Harrison,  A.  B.Cumberland. 
David  Yancey,  A.  B Louisa. 


1797. 


Ellyson  Carrie,  A.  B 


Son  of  Rev.  D.  Carrie.    Judge 
in  State  Court. 

Risque Lynchburg. 

George  Tucker,  A.  B Bermuda.1 Prof,  at  University  of  Virginia. 

David  Watson,  A.  B Louisa. 

1798. 

Nathaniel  Bui  well,  A.  B.Carter's  Grove,  J.  C. 
.Joseph  C.  Cabell,  A.  B...Amher-t . 
Isaac  A.  Coles,  A.  B Alh>-marle. 

Wills  Cooper,  A.  B North  Carolina. 

Jo-iall   I)e;me.  A.  B (Jloiie. 

.••11   .lohiiM.n,  A.  B..LOII' 

William  Lewifl,  A.  B Kre,lrrirU-lnir»-. 

Tho-.  M.  M:iury,  A.  B...AIb'-n> 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUNNI.  101 

NAMES.  BESIDENCKS.  REMARKS." 

Robert  Nelson,  A.  B York Son  of  Gen.  Nelson.  Chancellor. 

Mann  Page,  A.  B Mansfield,  Spotsyl Son  of  Mann  Page. 

Thos.  Whitefield,  A.  B.. Eastern  Shore. 

Stewart  Bankhead Westmoreland. 

George  Banks Stafford. 

Norborne  Beale Williamsburg. 

Wm.  Brockenborough....Tappahannock Judge  Court  of  Appeals. 

William  A.  Burwell Franklin Member  of  Congress. 

Bernard  M.  Carter Shirley Son  of  Charles  Carter. 

Robert  S.  Chew Fredericksburg. 

John  H.  Cocke Surry General  in  war  of  1812. 

Isaac  Cole Halifax. 

Isaac  H.  Cole. 

J.  M.  Tomlin Hanover. 

John  Walker  Fontaine. 

Robert  Gibson Prince  Edward. 

Peachy  R.  Gilmer Albemarle. 

Lewis  Harvie Richmond. 

Baily  Johnson Hanover. 

Boswell  Johnson Louisa. 

Arthur  Lee Norfolk. 

William  Lewis Fredericksburg. 

John  Tayloe  Lomax Caroline Judge  of  District  Court. 

Robert  Michie Hanover. 

Garret  H.  Minor Louisa. 

Horatio  Gates  Moody Williamsburg. 

Thomas  Nelson Hanover. 

William  Nelson York. 

William  D.  Nevisoii Norfolk. 

William  Nimmo " 

John  C.  Pryor Gloucester. 

Peyton  Randolph Richmond Son  of  Edmund  Randolph. 

Armistead  Selden Henrico. 

John  B.  Seawell .-Gloucester. 

Thomas  G.  Smith King  and  Queen. 

Edw'd  Carter  Stanard.... Spotsyl vania. 

Robert  Stannard Judge  Court  of  Appeals. 

George  W.  Tenant Caroline. 

Richard  Turner King  George. 

George  Turner u 

Joseph  Watson Louisa. 

1799. 

H.  St.  Geo.  Tucker,  A.  B. Williamsburg Son  of  Judge  St.  George  Tucker. 

Chancellor — Judge  of  Court  of 

Appeals. 
John  Boyer Augusta Son  of  Mich.  Boyer. 


102 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 


RESIDENCES.  REMARKS, 

John  Edmunds Sussex. 

John  H.  Smith King  and  Queen. 

David  Trimble Kentucky. 

1800. 

William  Archer Powhatan . 

William  Brent Charg6  at  Buenos  Ayres. 

John  M.  Conway. 
George  Carter. 

George  Goosley York. 

John  Augustine  Smith. ..King  and  Queen President  of  William  and  Mary 

College. 
James  Taylor. 

1795    TO    1800. 

William  Armistead Nottoway. 

W  illiam  Aylett King  William . 

George  M.  Bibb Prince  Edward United  States  Senator,  Chancel- 
lor of  Kentucky,  and  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury  United  States. 

Samuel  Stewart  Griffin...  Williamsburg Son  of  Judge  Cyrus  Griffin. 

James  Johnson Isle  of  Wight Member  of  Congress. 

Thomas  L.  Lomax Caroline. 

Charles  K.  Mallory Elizabeth  City. 

William  Munf ord Kichmond. 

Tully  Kobinson Accomac. 

NOTE.— Charles  Carter,  Champ  Carter,  Edward  Carter,  Robert  Carter,  John  Carter,  Hill  Car- 
ter, and  Landon  Carter,  sons  of  the  second  Edward  Carter,  of  Blenheim,  and  grandsons  of 
John,  of  Corotoman,  were  educated  at  the  College  of  William  and  Mary. 

1801. 

Nicholas  Cabell Amherst Son  of  Col.  Nicholas  ral.ell. 

Francis  Carr Albemarle Son  of  Dabney  Curr. 

Williams  Carter Shirley Son  of  Charles  Carter. 

.James  Pour] I  Cocke Amelia. 

<  Jrandison  Field Mecklenburg. 

William   Foil-lire Riehmond. 

Miles  Kin- Norfolk. 

K«"j;er  Jones..  We-tmorrlund \d.it.  (Jen'l  I'nited  Stale-  Army. 

T|I«K.  Ap  Oute<bv -lone-..  Commodore  I'niled  State-  \av>  . 

Riehard  JI.  Lee Norfolk. 

William  Li  m  Nay "  Col.  Cuited  St;,te<  Army. 

Riehard  Randolph Curl-.  Ilenrie,, Sen  of  David   M.  ade   Randolph. 

Crilliii  Stith P.run-wiek Fml^r  in  hi-lri.-t  Court. 

.lo-.-ph    I'n-nti-- Wi!  I  hi  iu<ln  irg. 

I  L'andolph Noli  -Ind-e  in  Si  at  o  Court. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


103 


RESIDENCES. 


REMARKS. 


N.  Beverly  Tucker Williamsburg Son  of  Judge  St.  George  Tucker. 

United  States  Judge.    Prof,  at 
William  and  Mary  College. 

1  802. 

Chapman  Johnson,  A.  B..Louisia Member  of  Convention  of  1829. 

Bnj.  Watkins  Leigh, A.  B. Chesterfield Son  of  Kev.  Wm.  Leigh.  United 

States  Senator. 

John  Dandridge Williamsburg. 

James  B.  Gilmer Albemarle. 

Mann  P.  Lomax Caroline. 

Thomas  Preston Montgomery. 

Ballard  Smith Greenbrier Member  of  Congress. 

John  Yates Jefferson. 

1803. 

William  O.  Allen James  City. 

E  dward  Ambler Jamestown. 

Samuel  B.  Archer Norfolk. 

J.  M.  Bannister Williamsburg. 

William  Barrett James  City. 

William  T.  Barry Kentucky 

John  T .  Bowdon Northampton . 

Joseph  C.  Breckinridge. 

William  Brown James  City 


.Postmaster  General. 


Wilson  Jefferson  Gary... 

Miles  Gary 

William  Chapman Prince  William. 

S.  Coke ......Williamsburg. 

Tucker  Coles Albemarle. 

Thomas  Croly. 

Henry  A.  Dearborn Massachusetts.. . 


.Chancellor,  and  Judge  in  State 

Court. 
Son  of  Wilson  Gary. 


John  Douglass New  Kent. 

William  P.  Edrington. 

A.  B.  Hooe King  George. 

William  C.  Holt Norfolk 

John  W.  Jones Chesterfield.... 

William  Johnson Hanover. 

A.  W.  C.  Logan Kentucky. 

John  Madison Williamsburg ., 

W.  T.  T.  Mason Fairfax. 

Richard  A.  Maupin Williamsburg. 

Francis  T .  Maury Spotsylvania . 

Joseph  H.  Mayo. 

Peter  Mayo Richmond. 


.Son  of  Gen'l  Dearborn.     Secre- 
tary of  War. 


.Speaker  of  Senate. 

.Speaker  House  Representatives. 


.Son  of  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Madison. 


104  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  KEMAKK8. 

Robert  Mayo Powhatan. 

William  Minitree James  City. 

George  Newton Norfolk Son  of  Thomas  Newton. 

Robert  Nicholas. 

George  D .  Nicholson York Son  of  Dr.  Robert  Nicholson. 

E dmund  Penn Amherst. 

B.  Williams  Payor Charles  City Captain  in  war  of  1812. 

Daniel  Scott. 
John  Shelton. 

Thomas  Tabb Amelia. 

John  Yelvertoii  Tabb ....      " 

Allen  Taylor Botetourt Judge  in  State  Court. 

William  Waller Williamsburg Son  of  Benj.  C.  Waller. 

George  Watson Louisa. 

Samuel  Wyatt Son  of  Col.  John  Wyatt. 


1800  TO    1803. 

Philip  P.  Barbour Orange ...Speaker  of  House  of  Representa- 
tives, and  Judge  S.  Court  U.  S. 
William  C.  Hett. 
William  Osborne  Sprigg..Maryland. 

Henry  E.  Watkins Prince  Edward. 

Abraham  Venable Son  of  Richard  N.  Venable. 

Nathaniel  Venable. 

1804. 

Richard  C.  Anderson Kentucky First  Minister  to  Colombia,  South 

America. 

B.  Archer Powhatan Son  of  P.  F.  Archer. 

Richard  C .  Archer "         Secretary  of  War,  Texas. 

Nathaniel  Balson. 

John  Bentley " 

George  Blow Portsmouth . 

Samuel  P.  Boiling. 

George  Booker Hampton. 

Peter  Brown James  City. 

Charles  Carter Corotman Son  of  Charles  Carter. 

Robert  Cocke Surry. 

John  Corniek Princess  Anne. 

Benja.  Crowninshie.ld Boston Sou  of  Senvtnry  of  Navy. 

Samuel  Davis. 

John  Demoville Charles  City. 

G.  J.  Devenish. 

IVyton  J)os\vcll. 

WillliamGoodwyn Dimviddie. 

Archibald  II.-iek-M. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  105 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMAKES. 

John  Hayes Richmond. 

J.  Smith  Hollins Baltimore Mayor  of  Baltimore. 

William  S.  Hollins " 

J.  J.  Howell. 
Edward  J.  Johnson. 

Catesby  Jones Westmoreland. 

Joseph  Jones Petersburg. 

Samuel  Jones. 

Antony  Lawson James  City. 

William  Leigh Chesterfield Son  of  Rev.  W.  Leigh.    Judge 

in  State  Court. 

Robert  Mallory Hampton . 

Peter  Minor. 

John  G.  Moseby , Powhatan Son  of  Col.  Wade  Moseby. 

Henry  Page Cumberland Son  of  Carter  Page. 

Thomas  Pearson. 

William  Raelford Richmond. 

William  Ragland Louisa. 

William  H.Roane. Hanover United  States  Senator. 

John  Robertson Richmond Judge  in  State  Court. 

Winfield  Scott Dinwiddie Lieut  Gen.  United  States  Army. 

Joseph  Selden Henrico Major  United  States  Army,  and 

Judge  in  Missouri. 
Charles  H.  Smith Norfolk Son  of  Lar.  Smith.    Paymaster 

United  States  Army. 

J.  Speed  Smith Baltimore Son  of  Gen'ISam.  Smith. 

Peter  F.  Smith Chesterfield. 

John  S.  Stiles Baltimore. 

G,  W.  T.  Wright Maryland Son  of  Governor  Wright. 

Watt  H.  Tyler Charles  City Son  of  Governor  Tyler. 

1805. 

Arthur  Smith,  A.  B Isle  of  Wight. 

Albert  Allmand .Norfolk. 

Richard  Becke. 

Thomas  Boswell Petersburg. 

Robert  Butler Isle  of  Wight. 

Reverdy  Cooke. 

Mordecai  Cookey Norfolk. 

John  J.  Crittenden Kentucky..... Governor  of  Kentucky  and  Sena- 
tor and  Attorney  General  U.  S. 
William  Macklin. 

John  Marks Prince  George. 

J.  Parkinson. 

Edward  Randolph Charles  City. 

Benjamin  Watkins New  Kent. 

Delaware  West King  William. 

8 


106  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNL 


.         1806. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMAKES. 

John  T.  Barraud,  A.  B... Norfolk. 

Benj.  Harrison,  A.  B Berkeley Son  of  Benjamin  Harrison. 

Barthol.  D.  Henley, A.  B.. James  City. 

Benjamin  Pollard,  A.  B..Norfolk. 

William  S.  Archer Amelia United  States  Senator. 

Linn  Banks Rappahannock Member  of  Congress. 

Richard  Batte Prince  George. 

Henry  A.  Claiborne King  William. 

John  Cooke. 

William  Crump Powhatan United  States  Minister  to  Chilli. 

William  F.  Mercer Norfolk. 

William  Giles Henrico. 

Stephen  Glasscock Fauquier . 

John  Godall James  City. 

William  Harrison. 

John  M.  Jeffries King  &  Queen State's  Attorney. 

William  H.  Jackson. 

John  F.May Petersburg Judge  in  State  Court. 

Hodijah  Meade Amelia Son  of  Gen'l  E.  Meade. 

William  T.  Nevison Norfolk. 

Nathaniel  Nelson Malvern  Hills,  Hen...Son  of  Robert  Nelson. 

John  Page Rosewell Son  of  Governor  Page. 

Francis  Ridley Southampton. 

John  Roane Dinwiddie. 

Charles  Russell Warwick. 

Linneus  Smith Goochland. 

William  Stiles Baltimore. 

Henry  W.  Tucker Bermuda Brother  of  George  Tucker. 

John  Tyler Charles  City Son  of  Governor  Tyler,  and  sec- 
ond Governor  of  the  name. 
President  of  the  United  States. 

J.  B.  Wilkinson Son  of  Gen'l  Wilkinson,  United 

States  Army. 

1807. 

Jam<-  n<>i~<Tm,  A.  B.... Chesterfield. 

William  Crawford,  A.  B. 

Ed'd  O.  Goodwyn,  A.  B..Dinwiddie. 

Brook  Hill,  A.  JJ King  &  Queen. 

Armis'd  T.  Mason,  A.  B.Loudoim United  States  Senator. 

John  B.  Patterson,  A.  B..Mathews. 
John  D.  Royall,  A.  B....Nottoway. 

liri-r-oe  G.  Baldwin Augusta Judge  Court  of  Appeals. 

James  I '.all. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  107 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Edward  Coles Albemarle Son  of  John  Coles.    Governor 

of  some  Territory. 
Benjamin  Dabney Gloucester. 

William  E  dmonds Dinwiddie . 

John  Gibson Prince  William State  Senator. 

Henry  T.  Harris Albemarle. 

J.  Hawkins Kentucky Succeeded  Clay  in  Congress. 

Thomas  Hayes. 

Joseph  J.  Hill Dinwiddie. 

Thomas  Hodges Norfolk , Major  United  States  Army. 

John  O.  McAlister Winchester. 

George  McCarty Loudoun. 

John  Madison Orange Son  of  Gen'l  William  Madison. 

John  W.  Page Hanover Son  of  Kobert  W.  Page,  Broad 

Neck. 

Andrew  Reid Livington Son  of  Andrew  Reid. 

John  Speed Mecklenburg. 

William  Smith. 
William  Stuart. 
G.  LaFayette  Washing- 
ton  .' Valley  of  Virginia. 

Charles  Washington. 
John  Wood. 

1808. 

Fred'k  Campbell,  A.  B...Westmoreland. 

George  Loyall,  A.  B Norfolk Member  of  Congress. 

John  T.  Mason,  A.  B Loudoun. 

Robert  Wash,  L.  B Kentucky Judge  in  Missouri. 

Robert  Yeatman,  A.  B...Mathews. 

R.  H.  Bailey Sussex. 

David  Beaseley Petersburg. 

Lewis  Berkeley Loudoun. 

John  Tayloe  Burwell Clarke Son  of  Col.  Nathaniel  Burwell. 

Abner  Galloway Bedford. 

Win.  Fitzhugh  Carter.... Shirley ...Son  of  Charles  Carter. 

Lewis  Carr Albemarle. 

Richard  Cary Gloucester. 

William  B.  Cowan Lunenburg. 

Peter  Graves....*. Caroline. 

George  Hord. 

Jesse  Hughes .Powhatan Son  of  David  Hughes. 

Henry  Lee Stratford,  Westm Son  of  Gen'l  H.  Lee  and  Major 

United  States  Army. 
Thomas  T.  Mayo. 

Francis  Mettauer Prince  Edward. 

Augustine  Monroe Nephew  of  President  Monroe. 

J.  G.  Mosby Powhatan. 


108 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

Robert  D.  Murchie Chesterfield. 

Samuel  Patterson Mathews. 

John  L.  Peyton Winchester. 

Alexander  Pope. 
John  C.  Kagland. 


Nathaniel  Smith Kentucky. 

Peyton  Smith. 
Thomas  O.  Taylor. 

William  B.  Tomlin King  William. 

Charles  Washington Westmoreland. 

1809. 

Gerard  Brandon,  A.  B... Manchester. 

John  Croghan,  A.  B Kentucky. 

John  Gaines,  A.  B King  and  Queen. 

Samuel  Myers,  A.  B Norfolk. 

Charles  Todd,  A.  B Kentucky 

Alfred  Alston South  Carolina. 

Kobert  Andrews Williamsburg 

John  S.  Barbour Culpeper 

Daniel  Gary  Barraud Norfolk. 

Wilson  Bond. 

Aaron  Booker Amelia. 

Richard  Booker Chesterfield. 

Jesse  Cole Williamsburg 

Thomas  T.  Crittenden... Kentucky. 

Gabriel  Gait Norfolk. 

Jacquelin  B.  Harvie Richmond 

Andrew  H.  Holmes Winchester 

Charles  S.  Henry. 

William  Irvine Chesterfield. 

William  W.  Linton Prince  William. 

Littlebury  Mosby Powhatan . 

Thomas  Nelson York. 

William  Old Powhatan 

John  Page 

William  C.  Rives Albemarle 


.United  States  Minister  to  Russia. 

.Son  of  Rev.  Robert  Andrews. 
.Member  of  Congress. 


.Son  of  Jesse  Cole. 


.Son  of  John  Harvie. 
.Killed  in  war  of  1812. 


B.  D.Russell Warwick. 

William  Somerville Maryland. 

Aiign-tino  Smith 

Robert  P.  Waller Williamsburg 


.State  Senator. 
Son  of  Robert  Pago. 
.United  States  Senator  and  Min- 
ister to  Franco. 


Colonel  in  TiiMdi  Si.-iii-s  Army. 
.Son  of  Benjamin  C,  \V:illcr. 


1810. 

Dabney  Browne,  A.  B...Jamca  City 1  in  William  an<l  Mary 

College.    SouofJ.  Browne. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  109 

NAMES.  KESIDENCES.  EEMABKS. 

Ferd.  S.  Campbell,  A.  B..Westmoreland Professor  in  William  and  Mary. 

George  Croghan,  A.  B... Kentucky Colonel  in  United  States  Army, 

defender  of  Fort  San  dusky, 
afterwards  Adjutant  General 
United  States  Army. 

Francis  W.  Gilmer,  A.  B..Albemarle. 

Inman  Horner,  A.  B Fauquier. 

William  B.  Page,  L.  B... Gloucester Son  of  Governor  Page. 

William  W.  Taylor,  A.  B.  Son  of  John  Taylor. 

J.  Bowen. 

Carter  Braxton Chericoke,  K.  Win. ...Son  of  George  Braxton. 

Warren  Christian Charles  City. 

Walker  Fontaine Hanover. 

John  Harrison Charles  City. 

J.  M.  Hite. 

Charles  Hoge. 

Robert  Hunter. 

Philip  Jones. 

John  W.  King Dinwiddie. 

William  Lamb James  City. 

.  Miles  Macon New  Kent. 

Alfred  Madison Orange. 

JohnMaury Albemarle. 

William  Meriwether " 

William  Moody Williamsburg. 

William  B.  Page Frederick Son  of  John  Page. 

Walker  Y.  Page Broadneck,  Han Son  of  Robert  Page. 

Christopher  Roane Charles  City.  (4  »  ^  f   V.j> 

f    E  dmund  Ruffin Prince  George Son  ^  fed.  Ruffln . 

Charles  Sewell Gloucester.  /S 

Overtoil  Sewell " 

Robert  G.  Scott Georgia. 

Richard  Stoddert Maryland Son  of  Benjamin  Stoddert,  the 

first  Secretary  of  the  Navy. 
G.  W.  Stribling Staunton. 

George  Vashaw , Goochland. 

M.  S.  Watkins Chesterfield. 

James  Wills. 

1811. 

George  Avery,  L.  B Sussex. 

Benjamin  Jones,  L.  B....Nottoway. 
Robt.  McCandlish,  L.  B..James  City. 
William  Greenhill,  L.  B..Nottoway. 
Richard  Povall,  L.  B...  .Powhatan. 
Francis  McAuley,  A.  B..York. 

John  Nelson,  A.  B Baltimore Minister  to  Naples  and  Attorney 

General  United  States. 


110  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

Richard  Pollard,  L.  B...Alta  Vista,  Albe. 
J.  Augustine  Smith,L.  B.King  &  Queen. 
H.  L.  Wilson,  A.  B. 

Thomas  Ambler Jamestown . 

John  Andrews Williamsburg. 

William  Boswell Matthews. 

James  Bowdoin Northampton. 

William  Burwell Carter's  HaU,  Clk Son  of  N.  Burwell. 

Colin  Clarke Powhatan . 

JohnCocke Surry. 

John  Cutler North  Carolina. 

Temple  Demoville Charles  City. 

Lewis  Dunn Warwick. 

Richard  Field Mecklenburg. 

Theophilus  Field " 

John  Field " 

William  H.  Fitzhugh Ravens  worth,  Fab*....  Member  of  Convention  of  1829. 

Son  of  W.  Fitzhugh. 

James  Gilliam Petersburg Son  of  Dr.  Gilliam. 

C.  H.  Harrison Clifton,  Cumberl'd...Son  of  R.  Harrison. 

R.  B.  Hunter King  George. 

Jesse  Irvine. 

George  Mayre Fredericksburg. 

William  Mason... Fairfax. 

Edward  Mosby Powhatan. 

Gregory  Page Gloucester Son  of  Governor  Page. 

Robert  E.Randolph Eastern  View,  Fau...Son  of  Col.  R.  Randolph. 

J.  F.  Robinson. 

Thomas  Tabb... Amelia. 

William  C.  Taylor. 

Joseph  Watkins Dover,  Goochland Son  of  J.  Watkins. 

George  Wyche Sussex. 

1812-13. 

James  S.  Gilliam,  A.  B..Petersburg. 

Carter  Harrison,  A.  B...Maycox,  Pr.  Geo Son  of  C.  B.  Harrison. 

Wade  Mosby,  A.  B Powhatan. 

Thos.  G.  Peachy,  A.  B...  Williamsburg. 

James  Prentiss,  A.  B Petersburg. 

Edward  Terry,  A.  B Mecklenburg. 

William  B.  Tylor,  A.  B..Princc  William Son    of    William    Tyler,    Ju.l-v 

State  Court. 

Charles  City. 

William    ii'-w  11 Hanover. 

•al'l  M.  IIaiTi.-on...<:iififiM, 

nicl  Miller Goochlaud. 

Wilson  Nicholas. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUNNT.  Ill 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Samuel  Pest. 

Lewis  Rogers Albemarle. 

Willis  B.  Vick Princess  Anne. 

William  A.  Winston Hanover. 


1813-14. 

Edward  Boisseau,  A.  B..Chesterfield. 
William  Brodnax,  A.  B..Brunswick. 

James  Brown,  A.  B 

Rob.  T.  Thompson,  A.B.. 

Lewis  C.  Tyler,  A.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Chancellor  Samuel  Tyler. 

Archibald  Atkinson Isle  of  Wight Member  of  Congress. 

George  Booth Gloucester. 

Hill  Carter Shirley Son  of  Robert  Carter. 

William  Christian Charles  City. 

John  Coke Williamsburg. 

John  Dandridge.. Prince  George. 

Powhatan  Ellis Amherst United  States  Senator  and  Min- 
ister to  Mexico. 

Patrick  Gait Williamsburg Col.  in  United  States  Army. 

Richard  Gait " 

Thomas  Henderson "  Son  of  J.  Henderson . 

William  Henley " 

Edward  Jones. 

Merrit  Jordan Isle  of  Wight. 

William  H.  Logan. 

Howard  McCarty Loudoun. 

John  M.  McCarty 4( 

Wm.  Mason  McCarty " 

John  Page Shelly,  Gloucester Son  of  Mann  Page. 

Robert  Page "  "  " 

William  S.  Peachy Williamsburg. 

Samuel  Pete. 

Henry  Shield Yorktown. 

Machen  Seawell Gloucester. 

.Robert  Thompson Norfolk. 

William  Thornton Gloucester. 

James  Wilson Isle  of  Wight. 


18f4-15. 

Eliezar  Black,  A.  B. 

Richard  Coke,  A.  B...... Williamsburg Member  of  Congress. 

J.  K.Hornsborough,  A.B.  " 

Howard  Shield,  A.  B Yorktown. 

John  Anderson Chesterfield. 


112  .  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMXI. 


DATE  OP  APPOINTMENT. 


Fontaine  Briggs  ............  Gloucester. 

Lloyd  Briggs  ................        " 

John  Bryan  ..................  York. 

Dandridge  Claiborne  ......  King  William. 

William  Dew  ................  King  &  Queen. 

George  Mason. 

Jackson  Morton  ............  Culpeper  .................  U.  S.  Senator  from  Florida. 

Thomas  Montgomery. 

William  Kandolph. 

George  Kobinson  ...........  Amelia. 

James  Semple  ...............  Williamsburg  ...........  Son  of  Judge  Semple. 

JohnSemple  .................  "          ...........        "  " 

1815-16. 

Edward  Cabell  ..............  Lynchburg  ..............  Son  of  George  Cabell. 

William  Finch  ..............  Charles  City. 

Gary  S.  Jones. 
Warner  Lewis. 
Collier  Minge  ................  Charles  City  ............  Son  of  John  Minge. 

John  Minge  ..................  "         ............        ".  u 

Mann  Page. 

Pryor  Richardson  ..........  James  City. 

Powhatan  Roberts  .........  Richmond. 

William  Van  Bibber  ......  Mathews. 


1816-17. 

Stephen  Archer Amelia. 

William  Armistead ...New  Kent United  States  Marshall. 

William  Baskerville Mecklenburg. 

Linneus  Boiling Powhatan. 

Junius  Burk Petersburg Son  of  Historian. 

John  Burwell. 

Nicholas  C.  Cabell Amherst. 

Lawlojn  R.  Cabell " 

P.  H.  Cabell 

John  B.  Christian New  Kent Judge  in  State  Court. 

K'l \\ard  Cocke. 
John  ('nl<-man. 
John  Coles. 

AuLnHtinc  Daltnoy Gloucester. 

;  Douthat Richmond  City. 

Francis  Eggleston. 
Alrxundrr  Fernando. 

Al'-xand'-r  Fl«-»-t King  &  Queen. 

riirUo|,lirr  Fleet 


CATALOGUE  OF   ALUMNI. 


113 


•   NAMES.  KESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Charles  Goodwyn Dinwiddie. 

Robert  Greenhow Williamsburg. 

Ezra  Halsted. 

Warner  Jones Gloucester. 

William  Jones " 

James  Jordan. 
John  Kerr. 

E.  H.  Lundy Sussex. 

James  Lyle Chesterfield. 

William  H.  Macfarland...Lunenburg President  Farmers  Bank  of  Va. 

John  G .  Miller .- Goochland . 

Mann  P .  Nelson Gloucester. 

Washington  Nelson York Son  of  Th.  Nelson. 

Robert  Carter  Nicholas-Richmond  city. 

Robert  Pickett " 

John  H.  Pleasants Goochland Editor  of  Richmond  Whig.   Son 

of  Governor  Pleasants. 

John  Plunkett Williamsburg. 

John  Prentiss " 

Robert  Quarles. 

William  Riddick Suffolk. 

Henry  Rives Nelson Son  of  Robert  Rives. 

Robert  Rives "     "  " 

Moncure  Robinson Richmond  city. 

William  E.  B.  Ruffin Prince  George. 

George  W.  Smith. 
Mutins  Spark. 
Thomas  L.  Stewart. 

Joshua  Storrs Henrico. 

Edward  Stratton Eastern  Shore. 

John  N.  Stratton " 

Daniel  Turner Greensville. 

John  Urquhart Southampton . 

Bobert  Ware Richmond  county. 

Willis  H.  Woodley Southampton. 

1817-18. 

X 

John  Ambler Jamestown Son  of  John  Ambler. 

Richard  Archer Amelia. 

John  Boyken Surry. 

Cary  Breckinridge Botetourt  Son  of  Hon.  Jas.  Breckinridge. 

Alexander  Brodnax Brunswick. 

Paul  Carrington Halifax  Son  of  Gen.  G.  Carrington. 

J.  Gregory  Claiborne. 

J.  B.  Clopton.. New  Kent Judge  in  State  Court.    Son  Hon. 

John  Clopton. 
Robert  L.  Crawford. 
9 


114  CATALOGUE  OF  ALTJMSTI. 


George  C.  Dromgoole Brunswick Member  of  Congress. 

Carter  H.  Edloe Prince  George Son  of  John  Edloe. 

William  O.  Goode Mecklenburg Member  of  Congress. 

•  Peterson  Good wyn Dinwiddie . 

Carter  C.  Harrison Sussex. 

Alexander  Jones Gloucester. 

John  D.  Leland. 

James  Lyons Richmond  city Son  of  Dr.  James  Lyons. 

James  McLaurine New  Kent. 

Thomas  Mann King  and  Queen. 

George  Morton , . .  Culpeper. 

Eichard  H.  Mosby Powhatan. 

Thomas  F.  Nelson Clarke ..Son  of  Philip  Nelson. 

H.  N.  Pendleton Caroline Son  of  E.'  Pendleton. 

George  S.  Philips. 

Nathaniel  Piggott James  City. 

T.  C.  Quinlam. 

David  Meade  Randolph..Curls,  Henrico Son  of  D.  M.  Randolph. 

Newman  Roane King  William. 

William  Sheppard Richmond . 

John  R.  Steed Norfolk. 

Henley  Taylor James  City. 

Robert  E.Taylor. 

Richard  Turner King  George. 

S.  W.  Washington. 
W.  T.  Washington. 
J.  M.  White. 
H.Willis. 

1818-19. 

I 

Archibald  Taylor,  A.  B..Norfolk. 
John  Mason,  L.  B. 

William  B.  Allison Petersburg Son  of  John  Allison. 

Thomas  F.  Barnes. 

William  E.  Boisseau Chesterfield. 

Thomas  Botts. 

Philip  A.  Branham.  ' 

Abraham  J.  Cabdl Amherst Son  of  Judge  Calx-ll. 

Charlea  .1.  c:,b.-il s,m  of  .ios.-ph  c.-ibrii. 

Ivhvanl  A.  ( 'alx-ll Son  of  Col.  William  Cabcll. 

Kol.'Tt    II.  <  aln-11 Son  of  Lanolon  Cabcll. 

U  Carter Prinn-  William Sim  of  ]-M.  Carter. 

.John  C.  Carter ..IJl.-iihriiii,  Allun Son  of  Kobrrl  Carter. 

rt  Copi'land. 

(;a\vin  I,.  Corbin York Son  of  Gawin  L.  Corbin. 

Oliver  M.  Fowlo Ak-xaudrhi. 

Minor  Gibson. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUNNI.  115 


RESIDENCES. 
• 


Robert  Gilliam Petersburg. 

William  H.  Glasscock Fauquier. 

Archibald  Govan Hanover. 

Atcheson  Gray. 
Peter  Guerrant. 

George  Hanldns James  City. 

Robert  C.  Harrison. 
Tipton  B.  Harrison. 
William  Hutnall. 

William  B.  Irby Mecklenburg Son  of  William  Irby. 

Montfort  Jones. 
Edward  Mallory. 

James  Mann King  &  Queen. 

William  Marshall. 
William  M.  Maxwell. 

Jeremiah  Morton Culpeper Member  of  Congress. 

Antony  Pennington. 

George  Perkmson Amelia. 

Thomas  J.  Perkinson " 

William  P.  Pierce James  City. 

Albert  Read Charlotte. 

Samuel  T.  Sawyer North  Carolina Member  of  Congress. 

Daniel  Slaughter Culpeper State  Senator. 

James  M.  Smith. 
James  Southgate. 

Peridleton  Strother Orange Son  of  John  Strother. 

Samuel  Williamson. 

William  Winston Hanover. 

John  Woolfolk Caroline. 


1819-20. 

Otway  B.  Barraud,  A.  B..Norfolk Son  of  Dr.  P.  Barraud. 

George  W.  Bassett Hanover Son  of  John  Bassett. 

Peter  F.  Boisseau Amelia. 

James  Brown. 

Richard  K.  Cralle Lunenburg. 

Francis  Gildark. 

Ralph  Graves James  City. 

Edmund  Harrison Charles  City. 

Thomas  King. 

William  Langhorne King  William. 

Peter  Lyons Hanover. 

John  Magill Frederick. 

Nathaniel  Magill. 

James  M.  Mason Winchester U.  S.  Senator.    Son  of  General 

Mason,  of  Georgetown,  D.  C. 


116  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

James  Murdaugh Nansemond. 

John  Murdaugh.; " 

John  B.  Peachy Williamsburg. 

Kichard  G.  Pegram Brunswick. 

Philip  GrymesEandolph.BenLom'd,  Gooch'd..Son  of  A.  C.  Randolph. 

George  Rives Nelson Son.of  Robert  Rives. 

Douglas  Wilkins. 

1820-21. 

Thomas  R.  Dew,  A.  B...King  &  Queen President  of  William  and  Mary 

College. 
Benjamin  Stewart,  A.  B. 

Orris  A.  Brown James  City. 

Samuel  Bockius Richmond. 

Robert  Carver. 

Philip  Claiborne King  William Son  of  Dr.  Claiborne. 

Randolph  Corbin King's  Creek,  York. ..Son  of  Gawin  L.  Corbin. 

John  A.  Dabney Gloucester. 

John  S.  Davidson Frederick. 

John  A.  G.  Davis King  &  Queen Professor  of  Law  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia. 

Thomas  Hawes. 

William  Mason Brunswick. 

William  Nelson York Son  of  William  Nelson. 

Wyndham  Robertson Richmond Governor  of  Virginia.    Son  of 

W.  Robertson. 

James  W.  Rogers Williamsburg Professor.    Son  of  Professor  P. 

K.  Rogers. 

William  B.  Rogers "  Professor  in  William  and  Mary 

and  University  of  Virginia. 
Son  of  Prof.  P.  K.  Rogers. 

John  N.  Scott. 

Robert  M.  Tidball. 

1821-22. 

Thos.  E.  Burfort,  A.  B... Chesterfield District  Attorney  United  States. 

Son  of  Lawson  Burfort,  State 
Treasurer. 

Richmond  T.  Lacy, A.  B..New  Kent. 

Frederick  Marx,  A.  B.... Richmond Son  of  Josoph  Marx.  Distin- 
guished i>hv>iri;m. 

R.  Barnes. 

Peter  P.  Batte Prince  George. 

John  J.  Chew Fredericksburg. 

^illium  Cocke Powhatan. 

John  Douglas New  Kent. 

John  N.  Faulcon Surry. 

J.  M.  Hanvll Nansemond. 

George  E.  iliiies. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  117 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  .  REMARKS. 

Lunsford  Loraax. 

George  W.  McCandlish..Williamsburg. 

Henry  W.  Moncure >.. Richmond Son  of  William  Moncure. 

John  O .  Trueheart.. " 

Daniel  G.  Tucker...! Winchester Son  of  George  Tucker.    United 

States  Congress  from  Ohio. 

John  J.  Van  Meter Hardy  county. 

Littleton  T.  Waller Williamsburg Son  of  John  Walker  Waller. 

Thomas  P.  Watkins Goochland. 

1822-23. 

William  S.  Scott,  A.  B. 

Alex.  W.  Tennant,  A.  B..King  George. 

James  Watson,  A.  B Louisa. 

Joseph  D.  White,  L.  B...  Governor  of  Florida  and  Member 

of  Congress. 

Richard  Baylor Essex. . 

Alexander  Bryant Prince  George. 

Richard  Byrd Isle  of  Wight. 

John  Cargill Sussex. 

Robert  M.  Garrett Williamsburg. 

John  M.  Hankins James  City. 

John  P.  Harrison Richmond. 

Samuel  Hawkins Maryland. 

Lewis  Holliday Louisa. 

H.  W.  Johnson. 

William  H.  Moncure Stafford Judge  of  Court  of  Appeals. 

Robert  Page Page  Brook,  Clark... Son  of  John  Page. 

Levin  M.  Powell Loudoun. 

Albert  H.  Prosser Henrico Son  of  Thomas  Prosser. 

Edwin  Redd. 

William  H.  Roy Mathews. 

Charles  Selden Powhatan. 

John  A.  Selden Henrico Son  of  Miles  Selden. 

Thomas  J.  Smith. 

Thomas  Walker Charles  City. 

Conway  Whittle Norfolk. 

Thomas  H.  Wilcox Charles  City. 

Gabriel  G.  Williamson... Norfolk  ..  ...Son  of  Thomas  Williamson. 


1  8  2  3  *-2  4  . 


Elias  T.  Bartle,  A.  B Maryland. 

Richard  Baylor,  A.  B Essex. 

John  Morris,  A.  B Louisa. 


*The  number  of  students  attending  the  College  from  the  year  1786  to  the  year  1S23  tak  3n 
from  the  book  of  matriculation  (since  lost)  by  the  late  Robt.  McCandlish,  Rector  of  the  Col- 
lege—1,645— an  average  of  about  45  students  each  year. 


118  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Robert  Saunders,  A.  B...Williamsburg Son  of  Robert  Saunders. 

Otway  B.  Barraud,  L.  B..Norfolk. 
Benj.  F.  Dabney,  L.  B...Kmg  &  Queen. 
George  Wythe  Munford, 

L.  B Richmond Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth. 

Son  of  William  Munford. 
Willoughby  Newton,L. B.Westmoreland Member  of  Congress. 

C.  J.  D.  Pryor,  A.  B.  & 

L.  B Hampton. 

Orville  Allen James  City. 

H.  J.  Banks. 

James  Beale Richmond Distinguished  physician. 

George  Booker Hampton. 

Beverly  B.  Brown James  City. 

Thomas  H.  Burwell Carter's  Hall,  Cl'k...Son  of  Col.  N.  Burwell. 

Theophilus  Field Mecklenburg. 

John  George Hnerico. 

Joshua  H.  Harrell Nansemond. 

Alexander  Knox Mecklenburg. 

Alexander  J.  Marshall... Fauquier. 

James  Marshall " 

Lucian  Minor Hanover Prof,  of  Law  at  William  and 

Mary  College. 

Henry  Myers Richmond. 

R.  Ryland  Randolph Culpeper Son  of  Bret  Randolph. 

William  Simpkins Eastern  Shore. 

Cornelius  C.Taylor Norfolk Son  of  Richard  Taylor. 

1824-25. 

Thomas  R.  Dew,  A.  M...  President  of  College  of  William 

and  Mary. 

John  H.  Cocke,  A.  B Fluvanna Son  of  Gen.  J.  H.  Cocko. 

Philip  St.  Geo.  Ambler. ..Fauquier Son  of  Col.  John  Ambler. 

Richard  Anderson Chesterfield. 

Thomas  Barclay. 

. I.  W.  Brockenborough... Hanover Son  of   Jndgo   W.   Brockenbo- 

rough.    United  States  Jud^c. 

Wilson  M.  Cary Fluvanna  &  Bait Son  of  Wilson  Ji'lU-rsoii  Cary. 

J.  W.  C.Catlett Gloucester. 

SamiH-1  Tiai'laiid Amherst. 

William  K.  llackl.-y. 

John  Hall. 

William  Overtoil Hanover. 

D.  F.  Randolph. 
George  A.  Smith. 

:•«!  B.  Stewart King  George. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  119 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Henry  Tazewell Norfolk Son  of  Littleton  W.  Tazewell. 

John  S.  Wilkins Lunenburg. 

1825-26. 

Wm.  H.  Garland,  A.  B...Amherst Son  of  Samuel  Garland. 

Beverly  B.  Brown,  L.  B. 
Kichmond  T.  Lacy,  L.  B. 

C.  Anthony Campbell. 

John  Bird Williamsburg. 

William  B.  Boyd King  and  Queen. 

J.  Powell  Byrd Gloucester. 

William  Christian. 

James  S.  French Petersburg. 

(Alexander  Price Kichmond. 
.William  Radcliffe Williamsburg. 
Augustine  Bobbins Gloucester. 

Baylor  Semple... Fredericksburg. 

Thomas  Smith Williamsburg. 

John  Speed Amherst. 

Alexander  H.  H.  Stuar't..Augusta U.  S:  Secretary  of  the  Interior. 

John  G.  Williamson Norfolk Son  of  Th.  Williamson. 

Edward  Wilkinson Charles  City. 

1826-27. 

Walker  Hawes,  A.  B. 
George  C.  Ball. 
A.  Blair. 

Spotswood  Christian Charles  City. 

Richard  C.  Crump New  Kent. 

William  R .  C .  Douglas ...        " 

John  M.  Gait Portsmouth. 

James  P.  Henderson...... Williamsburg. 

James  M.  Jeffries .....King  and  Queen. 

George  Southall Yorktown Son  of  Peyton  Southall. 

George  W.  Syme Petersburg ....Son  of  Andrew  Syme. 

Leonard  Taylor. 

1827-28. 

Philip  A.  Dew,  A.  B King  and  Queen. 

Robert  C.  Jones,  A.  B... Gloucester Son  of  William  Jones. 

A.  G.  Taliaferro,  A.  B...        "         Son  of  Dr.  Wm.  Taliaferro. 

Richard  H.  Adams Charles  City. 

John  Y.  Archer Amelia... Son  of  Jno.  R.  Archer. 

Euclid  Borland North  Carolina. 

Richard  B.  Boyd King  William. 


120  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Edward  J.  Bnllock  ........  Richmond  ..........  .....Son  of  Col.  David  Bullock. 

Charles  W.  Byrd  ...........  Isle  .of  Wight. 

G.  J.  Byrd  ....................          " 

Thomas  R.  Campbell  .....  Clarkeston. 

John  J.  Clarke  ..............  Charles  City. 

Edwin  Cunliffe  .............  Manchester. 

J.  L.  Deans  ..................  North  End. 

Thomas  H.  Edwards  ......  Portsmouth  .............  Son  of  Th.  Edwards. 

John  G.  Hattqn  .............          " 

Chnrles  L.  Henshaw  ......  King  and  Queen. 

B.  Hunter  ....................  South  Quay. 

A.  S.  Jones  ..................  Mecklenburg,  Va  ......  Son  of  John  Jones. 

E  d  ward  TV.  Marks  .........  Petersburg. 

David  Minge  .................  Charles  City  ............  Son  of  John  Minge. 

James  Minge  .................          "  ............        "  " 

R.  T.  Moffat  ................  Portsmouth  ............  Son  of  C.  TV.  Moffat. 

F.  D.  Piggot  ................  James  City  ..............  Son  of  F.  Piggot. 

Richard  H.  RiddickyK...  Suffolk  ........  ,*,  .........  Son  ofrQol.  Jos.  Riddick. 

George  Baffin  .......  J   ftlWjL  C  li  J    Cn^Iinn  oQ&fc»wi4Riiffiii. 

William  A.  Selden  .........  Richmond  ...........  .....Son  of  John1  A.J3elden. 

John  B.  Somerville  ........  North  Carolina. 

S.  S.  Stubbs  ..................  Gloucester. 

Thomas  Y.  Tabb  ...........  Amelia  ....................  Son  of  Yelverton  Tabb. 

C.  Taylor  .....................  Manchester. 

James  B.  Thornton  ........  Caroline  ........  '.  .........  Son  of  J.  B.  Thornton. 

Wm.  B.  Todd  ...............  King  and  Queen  ......  Son  of  Wm.  Todd. 

Richard  Tunstall  ...........  Caroline. 

Jam  e  s  M  .  Tyre  ..............  Manchester  . 

Logan  Waller  ...............  King  William. 

Curt  is  Waller  ...............  Spotsylvania. 

S.  Wilson  .....................  Surry  .....................  Son  of  Samuel  Wilson. 

R.R.  Wilson  ................     "     .....................  Sou  of  James  Wilson. 

Robert  Yates  ................  Gloucester. 

1828-29. 

Richard  Blow,  Jr.,  A.  B..Sussex  ....................  Son  of  George  Blow. 

Jagi  C.  Eggleston,  A.  B..Amelia  ....................  Son  of  Ed.  i:-ul<-<ton. 

.l..-.-pli  Hobson,  A.  B  .....  Richmond  ...............  Son  of  Joseph  llohson. 

A.  W.  Robins,  L.  B  .......  Gloucester. 

15ci,.i.  K.  Anderson  ........  Richmond  ...............  Son  of  R.  Anderson. 

•John    I-'.  An-hcr  ............         " 

JohM  li.  r.ntlrr  ..............  SmillinVM  ...............  S.,n  of  Dr.  Kolx-rf  Butler. 

!  G.  Cabcll  ...........  Kirimiond  ...............  Son  of  \Vm.  A.  <1al)t-ll.     J>Nl'm- 


•  S.  (  ];ii))onic  ......  King  William  ...........  B  -r-v  (  'laiborne. 

William  A.  Clark,  ........  Maiichotcr  .............  Son  of  Win.  15.  Clark. 

Benedict  Crump  ............  New  Kent  ...............  Son  of  Beverly  Crump. 


CATALOGUE   OP   ALUMNI.  121 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Thomas  S.  Dabney King  William Son  of  Benj.  F.  Dabney. 

Samuel  J.  Douglass Petersburg. 

Thos.  W.  K.  Edmunds... Surry. 

Edward  M.  Eggleston.... Amelia Son  of  Wm.  F.  Eggleston. 

George  L.  Fauntleroy.... Gloucester Son  of  Wm.  E.  L.  Fauntleroy. 

R.  F.  Hannon Petersburg Son  of  B.  F.  Hannon. 

John  W.  Haskins Powhataii Son  of  John  Haskins. 

P.  W.  Kemp Gloucester Son  of  M.  W.  Kemp. 

Newton  C.  King Norfolk'. Son  of  Miles  King. 

John  W.  Jarvis Mathews Son  of  John  D.  Jarvis. 

James  Johnson King  William Son  of  Christopher  Johnson. 

Benj.  F.  Jones u  Son  of  Thomas  Jones. 

Anderson  Jones Mathews u  " 

Orlando  S.  Jones "      Son  of  John  Jones. 

John  C.Mann King  &  Queen Son  of  John  Mann. 

Thomas  Martin Powhataii Son  of  Thomas  Martin. 

George  F.  Morrison Williainsburg Son  of  George  Morrison. 

Robert  Rodgers "  

James  M.  Scott... Richmond Son  of  Robert  G.  Scott. 

Edward  Simmons Petersburg Son  of  Robert  Simmons. 

Frederick  W.  Southgate..Norfolk Son  of  John  Southgate. 

A.  G.  Southall. 
James  B.  Southall. 

Richard  Taliaf  erro York. 

Edwin  A.  Teagle Williamsburg Son  of  Edward  Y.  Teagle. 

George  K.  Taylor Surry. 

JohnT.  Turner King  George Son  of  Richard  Turner. 

Richard  II.  Turner Williainsburg u  " 

Edward  Turner "  "  " 

William  Whiting ..King  &  Queen. 

William  E.  Yvinfree Chesterfield Son  of  Wm.  Winfree. 

1829-30. 

Morean  Bowers,  A.  B.... Williainsburg. 

Jno.  R.  Chambliss,  L.B..Sussex .Son  of    Lewis   H.   Chambliss. 

General  C.  S.  A.    Killed  hi 

battle. 

Richard  R.  Garrett,A.  B.. Williamsburg State  Senate. 

John  M.  Gregory,  L.  B... James  City.. Governor  of  Virginia  and  State 

Judge. 

John  B.  Jarvis,  A.  B Mathews Son  of  John  D.  Jarvis. 

Wm.  A.  Lyle,  L.  B Rockbridge Son  of  William  Lyle. 

Edwin  Shield,  A.  B York Son  of  Samuel  Shield. 

Wm.  Taliaferro,  A.  B...  Gloucester Son  of  Dr.  William  Taliaf  erro. 

James  Minge,  L.  B. 

D.  C.  Topp,  L.  B Tennessee Son  of  John  Topp. 

John  Willison,  A.  B Petersburg. 

10 


122  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

William  Bishop Williamsburg. 

E.  M.  Cabell Buckingham Son  of  Frederick  CabelL 

George  W.  Crump Norfolk. 

George  W.  Chismari York. 

H.  S.  Christian Charles  City Son  of  Turner  Christian. 

Thomas  H.  Daniel Petersburg. 

William  T.  Gait Williamsburg. 

Thomas  R.  Gregory Dinwiddie Son  of  Francis  Gregory. 

Thomas  A.  Harrison Charles  City. 

Walter  Henderson Williamsbu rg. 

William  B.  Lightfoot Fredericksburg Son  of  Philip  Lightfoot. 

William  H.  Jones Williamsburg Son  of  William  M.  Jones. 

John  H.  Marshall Fanquier Son  of  Thomas  Marshall. 

William  McCandlish Williamsburg Son  of  William  McCandlish. 

JohnS.  Parker Northampton Son  of  S.  E.  Parker. 

Eustace  Robinson Richmond Son  of  John  Robinson. 

William  L.  Savage Northampton.     • 

Ferdinand  C.  Stewart  ...Williamsburg Son  of  F.  S.  C.  Stewart. 

Carolinus  Turner Fredericksburg. 

Thomas  Turner " 

Frederick  A.  Wingfielcl.. Williamsburg Son  of  C.  T.  Wingfield. 

John  H.  Wright North  Carolina. 

1830-31. 

George  Blow,  A.  B Sussex Son  of  George  Blow.  State 

Judge  and  General. 

Thomas  Daniel,  A.  B.... Petersburg Son  of  Thomas  Daniel. 

Cyrus  A.  Griffin,  A.  B.... Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  S.  S.  Griilin. 

Alfred  Johns,  L.  B Buckingham Son  of  Glover  Johns. 

Thomas  Martin,  A.  B James  City Son  of  Dr.  Thomas  Mai-tin. 

Jas.D.McPherson,L.B. North  Carolina Son  of  William  McPherson. 

John  D.  Munford,  L.  B..Richmond Poet  and  scholar. 

Edmund.P.  Oliver,  A.  B..Nottoway Son  of  Isaac  Oliver. 

Robert  Ridley,  L.  B Southampton. 

George  W.S.'inple,  A.I>..Williamsbnrg Son  of  Judgo  Semple. 

Edward  Simmons,  L.  JJ..  Petersburg Son  of  Robert  Simmons. 

James  li.  Walls,  A.  B...Botctourt Son  of  Edward  Watts. 

W.  W.  Win-lield,  A.  1',.. Norfolk. 

C.  (I.  Tompkin-.  A.  r,....Malhews  Son  of  Col.  C.  Tompkins.  ('apt. 

U.S.  A— r,,l.  0,  s.  A. 

E.  J.  younir.  A.   II Northampton Son  of  Tli<>ma<  Young. 

•John  T.  K.  Ambler Kiehmond S».n  of  Kdwaril  Ambler. 

William  M.  Ambler 

!  M.  An. I. T.M, n William-bur;;- Son  of  L.TOV  An<ler<on. 

tingiii.-lird  phy-ieian. 
in  M.  Armi-tead... Hampton. 
J.  I!.  Ui-ov. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  123 

RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

George  C.  Eaton Williamsburg Son  of  John  Eaton. 

Mallory  T.  Dickson Norfolk. 

T.  R.  Friend Charlotte  Gap. 

J.  C.  Friend Petersburg Son  of  Nathaniel  Friend. 

J.  Faulcon Warrenton. 

Kichard  H.  Gregory Lombardy  Grove Son  of  William  O.  Gregory. 

William  O.  Gregory Kichmond. 

John  Jones Charles  City. 

H.L.Jones 

Allen  Jones Williamsburg Son  of  William  M.  Jones. 

R.Morris "  Son  of  Robert  Morris. 

E.  C.  Outlaw North  Carolina. 

Joseph  II.  Pendleton Williamsburg. 

William  S.  Pryor Hampton. 

William  Robinson'* Petersburg Son  of  Thomas  Robinson. 

Albert  Southall Gloucester. 

1831-32. 

Ro.  H.  Armistead,  L.  B.. Williamsburg. 
Lemuel  J.  Bowden,  L.B..  " 

Samuel  H.  Early  A.  B... Virginia. 
Robert  R.  Irving,  L.  B... Buckingham. 
Wm.  J.  Macklin,  L.  B....Greenesville. 

Wm.  Martin,  A.  B Williamsburg. 

Jno.  D.  Murdaugh,  A.  B.. Williamsburg. 
R.  B.  Somerville,  A.  B.... North  Carolina, 

John  S.  Stubbs,  A.  B Gloucester. 

T.  Wallace,  A.  B.,  L.  B... Petersburg. 

Wm.  H.  Wright,  A.  B North  Carolina. 

J.  W.  Burfoot Richmond Son  of  Lawson  Burfoot. 

Win .  Broaddus William sburg. 

Mayo  B.  Carrington Cumberland Son  of  Benjamin  Carrington. 

R.  E.  Dejarnette Caroline Son  of  D.  Dejarnette. 

J.  W.  Eppes Cumberland. 

J.  W.  Greenhow Richmond Son  of  Robert  Greenhow. 

Thomas  B.  Giles Amelia Son  of  Governor  Wm.  B.  Giles. 

*Robert  C.  Harrison Williamsburg. 

Robert  C .  Jones Gloucester Son  of  William  Jones. 

John  H.  Jones Charles  City. 

P.  C.  Lightfoot .....Buckingham. 

William  B.  Miller Mt.  Airy. 

R.  Martin Richmond. 

Frederick  Proctor Elizabeth  City. 

A.Robinson Richmond. 

H.  M.  Tennant Philadelphia. 

*Robert  Sanndcrs,  Jr Williamsburg. 

*  Resident  Graduates. 


124  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

William  Smith Baltimore. 

L.  H.  Trigg Abingdon. 

Samuel  Wills Williamsburg. 

1832-33. 

J.  W.  Dew,  A.  B King  &  Queen. 

Jas.  S.  C.  Griffin,  A.  B... Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  S.  S.  Griffin. 

J.  B.Lord,  A.  B North  Carolina. 

John  Payne,  A.  B Port  Conway. 

A.  G.  Taliaferro,  A.  B... Gloucester Son  of  Dr.  W.  T.  Taliaferro. 

E.  A.  Tatem Norfolk. 

Win.  S.  Thruston,  A.  B..Gloucester Son  of  Robert  Thruston. 

Wm.  G.  Young,  A.  B Denbigh,  War  wick....  Son  of  John  Young. 

William  B.  Clayton New  Kent. 

John  J.  Empie Williamsburg Son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Empie. 

Peter  Eppes Prince  George. 

William  R.  Gait Norfolk Son  of  Alexander  Gait. 

Thomas  J.  Gresham King  &  Queen. 

Richard  J.  Harrison Sussex Son  of  William  Harrison. 

William  J.  Harrison "      Son  of  Benjamin  Harrison. 

Richard  W.  Jeffrey Norfolk. 

Joseph  W.  Mason Sussex Son  of  Joseph  Mason. 

Seth  Mason - Frederick Son  of  S.  Mason. 

Thomas  R.  Swift Portsmouth. 

John  James  Thweatt Petersburg. 

1833-34. 

Humph.  H.Wynne,  A.B..Yorktown. 

William  Browne Williamsburg Son  of  Dabney  Browne. 

William  Carter Hanover Son  of  William  Carter. 

Thomas  H.  Dickinson Amelia. 

Walter  F.  Jones Gloucester. 

<;har!«?s  F.  Kennedy Norfolk  Son  of  Capt.  E.  P.  Kennedy. 

Philip  L.  Lee William -bur-. 

Thomas  I).  Warren " 

Charles  Washington Fred-rick  county Son  of  Geo.  F.  Washington. 

1834-35. 
Kolx-r  L  H GUou< 

.1.  K.   Armi-1ea<! 

Kob'-rl  .!.  r.a'iisii-r Kirhmoml. 

Thomas  A.   Il'irfoot IVlfr.-bi: 

Henry  II.  Hurwell Merkl.-nbnrg Son  of   I*.  II.  P.iinvell. 

S.  C.  L.   Hurwell I-Yei!  ;ly. 

T!iom:i-   !i.  <  amj) Norfolk. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  125 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMABK8. 

Robert  F.  Cole Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  Jesse  Cole. 

William  Crafford Warwick. 

John  Crarghi Massachusetts. 

George  H.  Crump Surry Son  of  John  C.  Crump. 

Walter  Davies Gloucester Son  of  A.  L.  Davies. 

Samuel  G.  Fauntleroy....King  &  Queen. 

Archibald  F.  Foster Williamsburg. 

Joseph  Foster " 

William  T.  French Prince  William. 

Charles  Friend Petersburg Son  of  Nathaniel  Friend. 

Alexander  D.  Gait Gloucester. 

William  W.  Gwathmey...Richmond Son  of  G.  W.  Gwathmey. 

Charles  B.  Hayden ...Smithfield. 

John  A.  Henley Williamsburg. 

Daniel  Jones "  Son  of  Allen  Jones. 

Josiah  N.  Jones Smithfield. 

B.  J.  Johnson South  Carolina Son  of  Wm.  Johnson. 

L.  A.  Lamb.. Charles  City Son  of  John  Lajnb. 

James  Motley. 

James  Rempty Lewisburg,  Va. 

James  E.  Ruffln King  William. 

John  J.  Scott South  Carolina. 

Richard  B.  Segar Urbanna Son  of  Richard  M.  Segar. 

James  Sheppard Hanover Son  of  J.  M.  Sheppard. 

1835-36. 

Wm.  A.  Christian,  A.  B..New  Kent Son  of  Robert  Christian. 

Walter  D.  Leake,  L.  B...Goochland Son-of  Josiah  Leake. 

John  Shelton,  L.  B Louisa. 

Marcus  Armistead Petersburg Son  of  M.  A.  Armistead. 

W.  H.  Armistead "         "  " 

W.  H.  I.  Anson Petersburg Son  of  M.  D.  I.  Anson. 

Jasper  W.  Bell Lunenburg Son  of  Adam  Bell. 

James  G.  Bosher Richmond Son  of  James  Bosher. 

George  H.  Cabaniss Williamsburg Son  of  James  Cabaniss. 

Henry  Christian New  Kent. 

Thomas  E.  Cox Richmond Son  of  Edward  Cox. 

R.  Cousins Southampton. 

Lewis  S.  Dortch Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Robert  French Norfolk. 

William  D.  Gurley Southampton. 

Frederick  G.  Gregory King  William Son  of  T.  W.  S.  Gregory. 

William  N.  Gregory "  "  " 

Straughan  Henley Walkerton,  Va. 

W.  R.  Hollman Surry. 

John  J.  Jones Lunenburg. 

R.S.Jones...  ,...  Gloucester...  ...Son  of  S.  Jones. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

HAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Edward  Lorraine Richmond Distinguished  civil  engineer. 

Thornton  McCarty Alexandria. 

Edmund  C.  Murdaugh...Willianisburg Episcopal  Clergyman. 

R.  Nelson Gloucester Son  of  P.  R.  Nelson. 

N.  Nicolson Middlesex Sou  of  P.  W.  Nicolson. 

James  Olham Tennessee. 

F.  W.  Power York. 

Edmund  Randolph Amelia. 

Benjamin  Robinson Shacklesford,  Va. 

Edward  S.Russell York Son  of  Thomas  C.  Russell. 

James  A.  Semple Willianisburg Son  of  JohnF.  Semple. 

Edward  A.  Semple "          "  " 

S.  R.  Sheild " 

S.  J.  C.  Stewart Philadelphia Son  of  F.  S.  A.  Stewart. 

A.  K.  Taylor North  Carolina. 

Henry  S.  Taylor " 

Jacob  Tinsley Hanover. 

C.  J.  Waller "  Son  of  Benjamin  Waller. 

William  Wynne Petersburg. 

1836-37. 

William  R.  Bland,  A.  B..Nottoway Son  of  Edward  Bland. 

A.  C.  Jones,  A.  B Isle  of  Wight. 

F.  J.  Mettauer,  A.  B Prince  Edward Son  of  Dr.  J.  P.  Mettauer. 

W.  S.  Peachy,  L.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  Thomas  G.  Peachy. 

Edward  P.  Pitts,  L.  B... Northampton Son  of  W.  G.  Pitts. 

John  M.  Speed,  L.  B Lynchburg Son  of  John  Speed. 

Robert  Tyler,  L.  B Charles  City Son  of  President  Tyler. 

John  Tyler,  A.  B "       

E.  W.  Allen Hanover Son  of  William  Allen. 

Francis  Armistead Hampton. 

Monro  Banister Amelia. 

John  Barksdalr. u       Son  of  W.  J.  Barksdale. 

William  P.  Bayly Accomac Son  of  Thos.  Bayly. 

Benjamin  Blake Essex. 

A.  C.  Browne King  &  Queen. 

E.G.  Carrington Halifax Son  of  Walter  C.  ('urrington. 

George  C.  CaiTiiigton....       "     " 

.Jam.-*  Carroll Isle  of  Wight. 

John  B.  Gary Hampton Principal  Hampton  Mil.  A. 

George  P.  Coleman Williamsburg SDH  of  Thos.  ('oleman. 

HIM i jainii i  <'nrli< Kiclmioml Son  of  11.  Curtis. 

J.  C.  Davis Wuym-'bonMigli. 

Edwin   II.  Mmimds IJrmiswirU Son  of  N.  S.  Edmunds. 

-John    M.  Kppcs 3tU 

.John  Finncy Powhatan Son  of  B.  W.  Finncy. 

N.  H.  Foreman Norfolk  county. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  127 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  BEMARKS. 

John  J.  Gravatt Port  Koyal. 

R.  S.  Hamilton Fredericksburg Son  of  George  Hamilton. 

John  T.  Harris Buckingham. 

John  P.  Harrison Charles  City Son  of  Benjamin  Harrison. 

John  B.  Hendrin New  Kent. 

K.T.Holstead Norfolk. 

William  H.'I.  Anson Petersburg. 

William  Lambert Richmond .Son  of  William  Lambert. 

John  W.  Lane Amelia. 

Charles  K.  Mallory Hampton Son  of  Francis  Mallory. 

R.  McCandlish Williamsburg. 

William  J.  McGowan Petersburg Son  of  Wm.  McGowan. 

Robert  Meade Brunswick Son  of  David  Meade. 

Nicholas  Mills Richmond Son  of  Nicholas  Mills. 

W.  C.  Moody Williamsburg Son  of  William  Moody. 

T.  H.  Morris Baltimore Son  of  John  B.  Morris. 

William  P.  Munford Richmond Son  of  William  Munford. 

Wilson  Nicholas "         Son  of  P.  N.  Nicholas. 

John  Page Clarke Son  of  John  E.  Page. 

W.  R.  Pierce Williamsburg Son  of  John  R.  Pierce. 

W.  C.  Pegram Dinwiddie. 

A.  H.  Perkins Yorktown. 

George  Rawlings Richmond Physician. 

George  W.  Richardson... Kentucky. 

W.  J.  Richardson New  Kent Son  of  John  Richardson. 

John  A.  Robinson Richmond Son  of  A.  Robinson. 

Powhatan  Robinson Petersburg. 

T.  B.  Russell York. 

John  D.  Scellen AVilliamsburg. 

James  E.  Scott. 

R.  A.  Shield Yorktown Son  of  Robert  Shield. 

W.  R.  S.  Skipwith Richmond. 

Thomas  F.  Spady Northampton. 

W.  M.  Sutton Hanover... Son  of  James  T.  Sutton. 

J.  R.  Sydnor Lynchburg. 

L.  W.  Tazewell Richmond Son  of  William  Tazewell. 

P.  M.  Thompson Richmond Son  of  Garland  Thompson. 

B.  S.  Tompsori Kanawha Son  of  Philip  R.  Tompson. 

William  W.  Townes Petersburg Son  of  John  D.  Townes. 

William  W.  Tyler Richmond. 

Cornelius  Tyree Amherst. 

A.  D.  Upshur Northampton. 

B.  D.  Watkins Cumberland. 

John  B.  Wilkinson Petersburg. 

George  Wilson Norfolk Son  of  George  Wilson. 

George  Wingfield "       

Richard  B.  Wright "       Son  of  William  Wright. 


128  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 


1837-38. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  BEMARK3. 

Herb.  A.  Claiborne,A.B..Richmond Son  of  H.  A.  Claiborne. 

James  A.  Clopton,  A.  B..New  Kent Son  of  J.  Clopton. 

Elias  Dodson,  A.  B Halifax. 

Benjamin  F.  Dew,  A.  B..King  and  Queen Son  of  Thomas  Dew. 

Thos.  B.  Donnelly,  A.  B..Williamsburg. 

John  Finney,  A.  B Powhatan Son  of  Benjamin  W.  Finney. 

John  M.  Gait,  A.  B William sbtirg Son  of  Dr.  A.  D.  Gait.  Superin- 
tendent E.  L.  Asylum. 

Edward  Gresham.  A.  B..King  and  Queen Son  of  Thomas  Gresham. 

Samuel  S.  Henley,  A.  B..  "  Son  of  T.  M.  Henley. 

Wm.  L.  Henley,  L.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Richard  Henley. 

Arch'd  C.  Peachy, A.  B...  "  Son  of  Dr.  T.  G.  Peachy.  Pro- 

fessor College  William  &  Mary. 

G.  L.  C.  Salter,  L.  B York Son  of  G.  L.  C.  Salter. 

Robt.  G.  Scott,  A.  B .Richmond Son  of  Robt.  G.  Scott.  U.  S. 

Consol  to  Brazil. 

John  O.  Steger,  A.  B Amelia Son  of  H.  Steger.  Prominent 

lawyer. 

John  Addison Northampton . 

William  H.  Armistead... Petersburg. 

John  B.  Ball Lancaster. 

D.  J.  Beasley Petersburg. 

William  Blankenship ....  Chesterfield. 

Thomas  G.  Blewitt Mississippi. 

T.  J.  Chambliss Sussex Son  of  William  O.  Chambliss. 

William  A.  Christian Charles  City. 

James  L.  Clarke Gloucester Son  of  Colin  Clarke. 

N.  C.  Cocke Prince  George Son  of  Thomas  Cocke. 

William  Cole " 

Robert  E.  Cutler Nelson Son  of  Robert  E.  Cutler. 

A.  D.  Dickinson Prince  Edward State  Senator.     State  Judge. 

John  S.  Edwards Mathews Son  of  Thomas  Edwards. 

Jacob  Faulcon Surry Son  of  John  A.  Faulcon. 

Charles  G.  Field Mecklenburg. 

Thomas  J.  Fi.-ld " 

John  II.  Fox Yorktown. 

William  II.  C,wa»hmey...Kin^  William Son  of  Richard  <;\vath:ney. 

Leonard  Henley Willianishurg Physician. 

John   W.  Irliy Xottoway  Son  of  W.  B.  Irby. 

Andrew   L.  Jarvis Malhcus Son  of  John  I).  .Jarvis. 

Robert  W.  Johnson Cumberland. 

Ivlmuixl  \V.  Jc.iM-i North  Carolina. 

Timothy  II.  l.:»--il<-r 

William  A.  Littl.-jolm.... 

Henry  Lind>«-y \ViHi:un<burg. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  129 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  KEMARKS. 

Duncan  McRae North  Carolina Colonel  in  Southern  army. 

Charles  P.  Moncure Kichmond. 

Charles  W.  Montague.... Gloucester. 
Thomas  B.  Montague....          " 

A.  T.  Page Cumberland Son  of  John  C.  Page. 

William  G.  Pollard King  William Son  of  Kobert  Pollard. 

John  Pratt Caroline. 

Powhatan  Kobertson Richmond Son  of  Judge  John  Robertson. 

Moore  Robinson "         Son  of  John  Robinson. 

William  Robinson King  and  Queen Son  of  William  Robinson 

John  W.  Rochelle Southampton. 

Joseph  T.  Royall Nottoway Son  of  John  D.  Royall. 

William  H.  Sims Halifax Son  of  John  Sims. 

P.  S.  Smith Nottoway Son  of  Kennon  Smith. 

William  B.  Smith Cumberland. 

Philip  B.  Tankard Northampton. 

John  A.  Taylor Norfolk. 

William  B.  Taylor Surry. 

William  A.  Thorn Culpeper Son  of  John  Thorn.     Prominent 

physician. 

W.  N.  Waller Williamsburg. 

James  R.  Warren James  City Son  of  M.S.  Warren. 

William  P.  Wood North  Carolina. 

J.  J.  Wright Essex Son  of  George  Wright. 

Joseph  H.  Wyatt King  &  Queen. 

William  B.  Wynne West  Florida. 

William  H.  Yerby Lancaster. 

1838-39. 

Thomas Blackwell,  A.B.Lunenburg. 

John  B.  Gary,  A.  B Hampton Son  of  A.  Cary.     Col.  C.  S.  A. 

Herb.  A.  Claiborne,  L.B.Richmond Son  of  H.  A.  Claiborne. 

John  A.  Coke,  A.  B Williamsburg Son  of  John  Coke. 

R.  Ivanhoe  Cocke,  L.B... Powhatan  Son  of  John  F.  Cocke. 

Wm.  W.  Crump,  L.  B... Richmond Son  of  S.  J.  Crump.    Judge  in 

State  Court. 
Thos.  B.  Donnelly,  L.  B..Williamsburg. 

Benj.  F.  Garrett,  A.  B...  " 

Wash'n  Greermow,  L.  B..Richmond Son  of  Robert  Greenhow. 

Edward  Gresham,  L.  B..King  &  Queen. 
John  W.  Grigsby,  L.  B..Rockbridge. 

Wm.  H.  Fitzhugh,  A.  B..Prince  William Son  of  W.  H.  Fitzhugh. 

Henry  Harrison,  A.  B.... Charles  City Son  of  Benjamin  Harrison. 

Alex.  Jones,  A.  B Petersburg Son  of  John  W.  Jones. 

James  B.  Jones,  A.  B....          "         "  " 

Benj.  B.  Minor,  L.  B....Spotsylvania Son  of  H.  J.  Minor. 

Chas.W.Montague,A.  B..Gloucester. 


130  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Wm.  M.  Overton,  A.  B...Lunenburg Son  of  W.  G.  Overton. 

John  Poindexter,  L.  B... Louisa. 

Edm'd  Randolph,  A.  B...  Amelia Son  of  Peyton  Randolph. 

Julian  C.  Ruffin,  A.  B... Petersburg Son  of  Edmund  Ruffln. 

Austin  M.  Trible,  L.  B... Essex Son  of  John  Trible.  State  Sena- 
tor. 

F.  M.  Baker .Richmond Son  of  Hilary  Baker.  Episcopal 

Clergyman. 

Joseph  G.  Banks Georgia. 

F.  L.  Barziza Williamsburg Son  of  P.  J.  Barziza. 

B.  E.  Booth Surry Son  of  Samuel  Booth. 

James  E.  Brooks Richmond Son  of  James  Brooks. 

James  Buchanan Tennessee. 

Thomas  H.  Bullock Lynchburg Son  of  James  Bullock. 

G.  P.  Carringtou Cumberland Son  of  B.  M.  Carrington. 

C.  A.  Clarke Halifax. 

Daniel  A.  Daly Mecklenburg. 

L.  W.  Edloe Williamsburg Son  of  William  Edloe. 

John  F.  Edmunds Brunswick. 

Charles  C.  Field Gloucester. 

Charles  S.  Fox King  &  Queen. 

W.  W.  Glenn Baltimore Son  of  Judge  John  Glenn. 

Frederick  Hall Portsmouth. 

James  Hamilton North  Carolina. 

T.  E.  Harding Northumberland. 

James  H.  Harrison Sussex. 

H.  J.  Hartwell Brunswick Son  of  Harrison  Hartwell. 

W.  J.  Hankins North  Carolina. 

A.  Hill Petersburg. 

James  M.  Jackson King  &  Queen. 

W.  B.  Johnson Fredericksburg. 

James  F.  Jones Frederick Son  of  William  S.  Jones. 

John  B.  Kercheval Hampton ; Son  of  Samuel  Kercheval. 

Thomas  II.  Leary North  Carolina. 

John  W.  Mclvessach Tennessee. 

C.  McLaurin Mississippi. 

D.  E.  Meade Dinwiddie. 

J.  C.  Medley Halifax Son  of  J.  Medley. 

John  E.  Moore Brunswick. 

S.  W.  Morris Louisa Son  of  Thomas  Morris. 

J.  H.  Nottingham Northampton. 

A.  S.   Pi-gram Dinwiddie. Son  of  Kdward  J.  Pt-gram. 

John   I).  Pierce lames  City Son  of  J.  JI.  Pierre. 

Daniel    \V.  Pitts \lal>ama. 

William  0.  Pratt Caroline Son  of  J.  P.   Pratt. 

Winston    lladfonl Lynrhbiirg Son  of  William 

John  II.  Keiu- Kiehmond Sou  of  Kirhard  lieiu>. 

William  I!  :i.i. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  131 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  KEMABKS. 

H.  C.  Semple James  City Son  of  Judje  James  Semple. 

Jabez  S.  Smith Petersburg Son  of  Jabez  Smith. 

Orlando  M.tSmith Surry. 

William  M.  Sneed North  Carolina. 

Waddy  Street Lunenburg Son  of  David  Street. 

Edwin  Taylor Caroline Son  of  John  Taylor. 

John  B.  Taylor Eoanoke. 

George  Turner King  George. 

James  B.  Turner North  Carolina. 

Corbin  G.  Waller Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  Robert  P.  Waller. 

Charles  C.  Waller "  ...Son  of  Benjamin  Waller. 

A.Watson Accomac. 

J.  Willis Mississippi. 

L.  J.  Winder Yorktown. 

William  R .  Young Caroline . 

1839-40. 

W.  E.  Blankenship,L.B..Chesterfield. 

Jas.  M.  Carrington,L.B..Richmond Son  of  L.  Carrington. 

L.  W.  Carter,  A.  B Shirley Son  of  Hill  Carter. 

Wm.  E.  Clarke,  L.  B..,.. Alabama. 

Benj.  F.  Dew,  A.  M King  and  Queen Son  of  Thomas  Dew. 

John  H.  Dillard,  L.  B.... North  Carolina. 
Geo.  R.  Dupuy,  A.  B.... Petersburg. 

John  Finney,  L.  B Powhatan. 

Wm.  H.  Gwathmey, A.B.King  William. 

Thos.  H.  Harrison,  A.  B..Sussex Son  of  William  Harrison. 

Alex.  Jones,  L.  B ....Chesterfield Son  of  J.  W.  Jones. 

Edmund  W.  Jones,  L.  B..North  Carolina. 

Jas.  B.Jones,  L.B Chesterfield Son  of  J.  W.  Jones. 

Warn.  T.  Jones, 

A.  B.,  L.  B... Gloucester Judge  of  Gloucester  county. 

David  E.  Meade,  A.  B...Dinwiddie. 

John  Minge,  A.  B Charles  City Son  of  Dr.  JohnMinge. 

G.  W.  Nottingham,  A.B..Northampton. 

Wm.  Old,L.  B Powhatan Son  of  Wm.  Old.  Capt.  C.S.  A. 

A.  C.  Peachy,  A.  M Williainsburg Son  of  Dr.  Thomas  G.  Peachy. 

J.  H.  Rawlings, 

A.  B.,  L.  B...Spotsylvania Son  of  Lewis  Rawlings. 

G.  W.  Richardson, 

A.  B.,  L.  B... Hanover. 

M.  B.  Seawell,  L.  B Gloucester Son  of  B.  Seawell.    Prominent 

lawyer. 

William  H.  Sims,  A.  B... Halifax Son  of  John  Sims. 

Tristham  L.  Skinner, 

A.  B... North  Carolina Major  C.  S.  A.    Killed  at  Seven 

Pines. 


132 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

John  B.  Stanard,  A.  B...Fredericksburg. 

Thos.  S.  Watson,  A.  B... Louisa  Son  of  David  Watson. 

Wm.  Waller,  L.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  W.  Wittier. 

Lloyd  W.Williams,  L.B..Norfolk. 
Wm.  C.  Williams,  A.  B...Kichmond. 

Wm.  Allen ...Hampton. 

E.  A.  Barziza Williamsburg Son  of  P.  J.  Barziza. 

W.  L.  Barziza "  "  »«• 

James  Beatty Baltimore. 

Norborne  Blow Sussex Son  of  Col.  George  Blow. 

Wm.N.  Blow " "  " 

N.  K.  Cary.. Hampton Son  of  G.  A.  Cary. 

D.  A.  Claiborne Brunswick. 

T.  L.  Clanton North  Carolina. 

B.  Cosnahan South  Carolina. 

J.  F.  Dilley Maryland. 

Robert  Doles Southampton Son  of  Patrick  Doles. 

E.  D.  Farrar Mississippi. 

John  Ferguson Shenandoah Son  of  R.  F.  Ferguson. 

Thomas  W.  Field Gloucester. 

B.  S.  Foster North  Carolina. 

B.  J.  Gouldin Caroline. 

Wm.  D.  Gresham King  &  Queen Prominent  lawyer. 

Wm.  Hancock Richmond Son  of  M.  W.  Hancock. 

John  A.  Harmon Petersburg Son  of  R.  F.  Hannon. 

J.Harrison Prince  George. 

JohnT.  Hatcher Norfolk Son  of  Charles  Hatcher. 

T.  P.  Holcombe Richmond Son  of  T.  N.  Holcombe. 

Daniel  C.Holliday New  Orleans. 

B.  Howes New  York  city. 

A.  G.  Jones New  Kent Son  of  Chesley  Jones. 

John  A.  Jones Hampton. 

Walker  F.Jones Gloucester Son  of  Walker  Jones. 

J.  D.  Lyle Richmond Son  of  J.  Lylc. 

C.  T.  Mason Brunswick Son  of  Nathaniel  Mason. 

L.  W.  Mason Sussex Son  of  Henry  Mason. 

T.  .1.  .MeK.-n/ie Richmond. 

Peyton  Me;i<le Amelia Son  of  Hodijah  Meadc. 

Thomas  G.  McGehee North  Carolina. 

John  S.  Miller Buckingham Son  of  W.  A.  Miller. 

B.  Owen Alabama. 

James  IVndl-ton King  &  Queen Son  of  Philip  I'..  IVndlcton. 

Lewis  W.  Pitts Alabama. 

Kiddick SufVolk  Sou  of  Burwell  Kid. lick. 

Wm.  (J.  Kiley Aceomac Sou  of  Wm.  Ril -y.  State. Judge. 

James  M.  Robertson Lynehburg. 

L.  B.  Rose Kivdrriek.-burg. 

A.  II.  (',.  Bind! William^Mirg Sou  of  Thomas  Sands. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  133 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

'Thomas  F.  Scott Campbell. 

S.  Semple James  City. 

E.  B.  Shelton Louisa Son  of  William  Shelton. 

C.  E.  Smith..; Missouri Son  of  Gen.  Thomas  A.  Smith, 

U.  S.  A. 
John  H.  Taylor Mecklenburg. 

Wm.  M.  Towler "  ,.Son  of  W.  Towler. 

WatH.  Tyler Hanover Son  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Tyler. 

Mat  P.  Waller Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  Robert  P.  Waller. 

Thomas  R.  Williams Nottoway Son  of  D.  G.  Williams. 

A.  A.  Whitehead Smithfield Son  of  J.  B.  Whitehead. 

George  T.  Wright Essex Son  of  George  Wright. 

John  R.  Wright King  &  Queen Son  of  William  Wright. 


1840-41. 

Jas.  A.  C.  Clopton,  A.M..New  Kent Son  of  James  Cloptou. 

Wm.  W.  Coke,  A.  B Williamsburg Son  of  John  Coke. 

Jas.  W.  Cook, 

A.  B.,  L.  B...Greensville Son  of  James  W.  Cook. 

John  P.  Dickinson,  L.  B..Caroline Son  of  S.  C.  Dickinson. 

Wm.  R.  Drinkard,  A.  C..Petersburg Son  of  Beverley  Drinkard. 

Alex.  C.  Garrett,  A.  B...  Williamsburg. 
B.  F.  Garrett, 

A.  M.,  L.  B... Williamsburg. 

Geo.  F.Harrison,  A.  B... Cumberland Son  of  Carter  H.  Harrison. 

Daniel  C.  Holliday,  A.B..New  Orleans. 

Benjamin  Irby,  A.  B Nottoway Son  of  Edmund  Irby. 

•Alex.  Jones,  A.  M Chesterfield. 

Jas.  B.  Jones,  A.  M " 

L.  W.  Mason,  L.B Sussex Son  of  Henry  Mason. 

Jessie  S.  Miller,  A.  B Buckingham. 

John  E.  Moore,  A.  B.... Brunswick. 

W.  M.  Overton, 

A.  M.,  L.  B...Lunenburg Son  of  Wm.  G.  Overton. 

Jno.  W.  H.  Parker, 

L.  B...Accomac Prominent  lawyer. 

Arch.  C.  Peachy,  L.  B.... Williamsburg. 

Wm.B.  Taliaferro,  A.  B..Gloucester Son  of  W.  T.  Taliaferro.  Major 

Gen'l  C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  A.  Temple,  L.  B... Sussex. 

John  S.  Trueheart,  A.  B..Richmond. 

JohnD.  Warren,  A.  B...         "   Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  F.  Wood, 

A.  B.,  L.  B... Tennessee. 

John  T.  Wootten,  L.  B... Henry. 

Selden  S.  Wright,  L.B.JEssex Son  of  Thomas  Wright. 

Wm.  H.  Anderson...,    ...Alabama. 


134  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


NAMES. 

H.  A.  Budham North  Carolina. 

Thomas  Blankenship Chesterfield. 

Samuel  J.  Booker Buckingham Son  of  George  Booker. 

C.  J.  Cabaniss Dinwiddie. 

George  Caroll Isle  of  Wight. 

Wm.  C.  Clement Franklin Son  of  G.  W.  Clement. 

S.  P.  Christian New  Kent Son  of  John  F.  Christian. 

W.  A.  Cocke Powhatan. 

O.  A.  Crenshaw... Fluvanna. 

D.  C.  Dejarnette Caroline Son  of  Daniel  Dejarnette.  Mem- 

ber of  Congress. 

L.  C.  Dew King  &  Queen Son  of  Thomas  Dew. 

O.  B.  Finney Accomac State  Senator. 

Fayette  Griffin Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  S.  S.  Griffin. 

A.  F.  Raymond.     . 

W.  W.  Jacob Northampton. 

John  W.  Johnson Petersburg Son  of  Ashton  Johnson. 

John  T.  King Alabama. 

W.  J.  Leary North  Carolina. 

John  B.  Lemoine Petersburg Son  of  John  C.  Lemoine. 

John  H.  Lewis .Tappahannock. 

S.  W.  Mapp Accomac. 

Marion  T.  Mayo Fluvanna Son  of  Wm.  Mayo. 

Edward  W.  Morris Hanover Son  of  Richard  Morris. 

R.  Neblett Lunenburg  Son  of  Dr.  S.  Neblett. 

Charles  Old ..Powhatan Son  of  William  Old. 

Francis  Patterson North  Carolina. 

James  W.  Preston Washington  county...Son  of  John  M.  Preston. 

Joseph  Royal  1 Nottoway. 

Thomas  F.  Scott Louisana. 

J.  W.  Sheppard Hanover Son  of  Joseph  M.  Sheppard. 

Crawford  E.  Smith Missouri Son  of  Gen.  T.  A.  Smith,  U.S.  A. 

Ri-uben  Smith "       "  "  " 

Richard  K.  Smith Nottoway Son  of  Konnon  Smith. 

Samuel  G.  Staples Patrick Son  of  Abraham  Staples. 

11.  II.  Tut  urn Chesterfield Son  of  Henry  W.  Tatum. 

Vaiden Williamshurg. 

W.  E.  Walker Greensville. 

Wm.LTayetteWatkin8..Brunswick Son  of  Stephen  D.  Watkins. 

Win.  M.  Wrems Louisiana. 

John  G.  William-; Kidimond Prominent  lav,  yer. 

Samuel  White Tennessee  Son  of  Judge  Hugh  L.  White. 

1841-42. 

Jninc-  BolBSeaU,  A.  i; Dinwiddie. 

.  ( •;.:•., II.  A.  li..l-l,-  of   Wight. 

on  Christian,  A.  B...Ch*rlei  < 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


135 


NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Wm.  W.  Coke,  L.  B Williamsburg. 

Peter  G.  A.  Evans,  L.  B..North  Carolina. 

John  H.  Fox,  A.  B Yorktown. 

Joseph  W.  Kay,  A.  B Essex Son  of  James  Kay. 

Joseph  H.  Lewis,  A.  B...     "      Son  of  Warner  Lewis. 

Robt.  L.  Montague,  L.B..Middlesex Son  of  Lewis  B.  Montague.    Lt. 

Governor  of  Virginia. 

John  S.  Moon,  L.  B Albemarle Son  of  S.  D.  Moon. 

Eaton  Nance,  A.  B Charles  City Son  of  Zachariah  Nance. 

Robert  Ould,  L.  B Georgetown U.  S.  District  Attorney.   Promi- 
nent lawyer. 

J.  J.  Poval,  L.  B Powhatan. 

Francis  Ruffln,  A.  B Surry Son  of  Francis  Ruffln. 

John  R.  Stith,  L.  B Northumberland. 

Littleton  Tazewell,  L.B..Richmond. 

John  G.  Williams,  A.  B..        "         Prominent  lawyer. 

P.  A.  Atkinson North  Carolina. 

George  C.  Ashton King  George Son  of  D.  Ashton. 

James  F.  Batte... Greensville. 

Edmund  W.  Bayly Northampton. 

Win.  C.  Clement Franklin Son  of  J.  W.  Clement. 

John  R.  Copeland Petersburg. 

John  T.  Custis Accomac. 

William  S.  Custis " 

R.  S.  Dobson .Hanover. 

Stratton  B.  Downing.... Southampton Son  of  E.  W.  Downing. 

S.  B.  Evans North  Carolina. 

Milliard  Fort " 

T.  W.  Goodrich Greensville Son  of  Robert  H.  Goodrich. 

D.  Harmanson Northampton. 

D.  W.  Harris Georgia. 

Benjamin  Harrison Charles  City Son  of  Benjamin  Harrison. 

John  B.  Hatchett Lunenburg Son  of  Haynie  Hatchett. 

M.  T.  Hankins North  Carolina. 

Charles  B.  Hubbard Richmond. 

Henry  B.  Hunter North  Carolina. 

Edwin  B.  Jones Brunswick. 

James  F.  Jones Northampton. 

John  P.  Jones. Hampton Son  of  John  Jones. 

Wm.  H.  Jones Fluvaima Son  of  Charles  W.  Jones. 

Wilson  W.  Jones Northampton. 

E.R.  Leatherbury "  Son  of  John  W.  Leatherbury. 

Prominent  physician. 

J.  R.McQuire Suffolk. 

William  S.  Merrit Goochland. 

R.  H.  Power.... Yorktown Son  of  F.  B.  Power.     State  Sen- 
ator. 
Walter  G.  Randle Georgia. 


136  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Washington  L.  Riddick..Suffolk Son  of  Mills  Riddick. 

L.  J.  Rose Brunswick Sou  of  Henry  Ho.se. 

F.  T.  Vail Yorktown. 

W.  B.  Thompson South  Carolina Son  of  Hon.  Waddy  Thompson. 

Mathew  Whitaker North  Carolina Son  of  Hon.  W.  Whitaker. 

John  F.  Wooten " 

1842-43. 

F.  L.  Barziza,  L.  B Williamsburg Son  of  P.  J.  Barziza. 

Seneca  M.  Conway,  L.  B.'Northumberland. 

Beverly  B.  Douglas,  N.B.New  Kent .....Major  C.  S.  A.    State  Senator. 

Wm.  F.  Fitchett,  L.  B... Northampton Son  of  Daniel  Fitchett. 

Alex.  C.  Garrett,  L.  B...  William  sburg. 
Geo.  F.  Harrison,  L.  B... Cumberland. 

Daniel  Hatcher,  A.  B Powhatan Son  of  Seth  Hatcher. 

H,  H.  Land,  L.  B Princess  Anne. 

W.  A.  Leigh,  L.  B Prince  Edward Son  of  Paschal  J.  Leigh. 

William  S.  Morris,  A.  B..Hanover Son  of  Richard  Morris. 

W.  J.  Neblett,  L.  B Lunenburg Son  of  Dr.  S.  Neblett. 

Pleasant  P.  Peace,  L.  B. North  Carolina. 

Jno.  B.  Peachy,  L.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  Thomas  G.  Peachy. 

J.  P.  Pierce,  L.  B Charles  City Son  of  John  R.  Pierce. 

L.  J.  Rose,  A.  B Brunswick Son  of  Henry  Rose. 

Wash.  L.  Watkins,  A.B..Petersburg Son  of  D.  Watkins. 

Thos.  M.  Wilson,  A.  B... Norfolk Son  of  George  Wilson. 

H.  T.  Banister Amelia. 

A.  W.  Battle Georgia. 

G.  G.  Bird South  Carolina. 

William  Carter Williamsburg. 

Charles  Coleman Williamsburg Son  of  William  Coleman.     Phy- 
sician. 

R.  D.  Gale Alabama. 

E.  J.  Harrison Cumberland. 

John  M.  Hodges Halifax. 

E.  W.  Keesee Richmond. 

A.  Lewis North  Carolina. 

R.  Miller Norfolk Son  of  B.  M.  Miller. 

B.  C.  Perkins ;t 

Win.  -L  Seymour P.runswick Son  of  William  Seymour. 

.John  E.  Smaw Northampton. 

L.  M.  Spratley Surry Sou  of  I'.  T.  Spratley. 

S.  I',.  Spratley " 

Waller  Taylor Mecklenburg. 

W.  .1.  Week.- Louisiana. 

IvSinuud  T.  Wilkins Ten  Son  of  Dr.  IVnj.  Wilkius.  Dis- 

tinguished physician.  Super- 
intendent. California  Lunanio 
iiiiii. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  137 

NAMES.  BESIDENCES.  REMAKK8. 

S.  P.  Wilson Pittsylvania .Son  of  Robert  Wilson. 

W.  R.  Wilson Surry Son  of  James  Wilson. 

Chastain  White Son  of  William  L.  White.     State  Senator. 

J.  W.  White Hanover. 

1843-44. 

A.  C.  Garrett,  A.  M Williamsburg. 

Edmund  Berkeley,  A.  B.^oudoun Son  of  Lewis  Berkeley.   Colonel 

C.S.A. 
Thos.  H.  Campbell,  L.  B.Nottoway. Son  of  A.  A.  Campbell.    State 

Senator. 

E.  G.  Canthan,  L.  B Essex. 

Geo.  W.  Field,  L.  B Brunswick Son  of  R.  W.  Field. 

Richard  Gate  wood,  A.  B.Norfolk Son  of  Richard  Gatewood. 

Thos.  R.  Gresham,  A.  B.King  and  Queen. 
Jas.  M.  Mathews,  L.  B...Tappahannock. 

Lyttleton  Nock,  L.  B Accomac Son  of  William  Nock. 

Francis  C.  Riddick,L.  B.Suffolk .Son  of  Burwell  Riddick. 

Francis  Ruffln,  L.  B Surry Son  of  Francis  Ruffin. 

Miles  Selden,  A.  B Charles  City Son  of  John  A.  Selden. 

Sydney  Smith,  A.  B York Son  of  Henry  Smith. 

Henry  M.  Vaiden,  A.  B.. Williamsburg Son  of  Isaac  Vaiden. 

Wm.  G.Walker,  A.  B... North  Carolina. 
S.  Decatur  Whittle,  L.  B.Mecklenburg. 
Thos.  M.  Wilson,  L.  B... Norfolk. 
Edw'd  T.  Wingo,  L.  B..Cumberland. 

Hunter  Woodis,  L.  B Norfolk Mayor  of  Norfolk. 

H.  S.  Belt Richmond. 

E.  F.  Blair " 

R.  H.  Brookes North  Carolina. 

W.  P.  Byrd Williamsburg Son  of  Addison  L.  Byrd. 

JohnF.  Carter 

Benjamin  L.  Christian... New  Kent. 

William  Christian Richmond. 

T.  R.  Dew King&  Queen Son  of  William  Dew. 

F.  L.  Douthat Charles  City. 

Wm.  A.  Durfey Williamsburg Son  of  William  Durfey. 

Richard  Eppes Prince  George. 

James  W.  Field Mecklenburg. 

Wm.  S.  Field Gloucester. 

Lucian  Fletcher Lynchburg. 

A.  A.  Hughes Richmond, Son  of  A.  Hughes. 

J.  C.  Mann King  &  Queen Son  of  William  Mann. 

Louis  H.  Russell North  Carolina. 

F.  H.  Smith. 

James  E.  Smith Alabama. 

L.  D.Spragins Halifax Son  of  T.  D.  Spragins. 

11 


138  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Thomas  Tinsley Richmond Son  of  T.  G.  Tinsley. 

M.  S.  Valentine Richmond Son  of  M.  S.  Valentine. 

Bernard  Wiley Savannah. 

F.  C.  Williams Nottoway Son  of  D.  G.  Williams. 

J.  M.  Willis Hampton Son  of  J.  M.  Willis. 

1844-45. 

Rob.  B.  Armistead,  A.B..Alabama Son  of  Wm.  Armistead.    Major 

C.  S.  A.    Killed  at  Shiloh. 

W.  N.  Berkeley Loudoun Son  of  L.  Berkeley.    Major  C. 

S.A. 

Jas.  S.  Christian,  A.  B...Williamsburg' Son  of  Judge  John  B.  Christian. 

Josiah  Harris,  A.  B Georgia. 

Robt.  Hutchinson,  A.  B..Essex. 

Tiberius  G.  Jones,  A.  B..Buckingham. 

Abrah.  H.  McLaws,  A.B..Georgia Major  C.  S.  A. 

Joseph  C.  Mayo Norfolk Son  of  P.  P.  Mayo. 

Bernard  Peyton,  A.  B... Richmond Son  of  Gen.  B.  Peyton. 

Geo.  G.  Thompson,  A.  B..Culpeper Captain  C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  R.  Cocke,  L.B Powhatan Son  of  John  F.  Cocke. 

Thos.  R.  Gresham,  L.  B..King  &  Queen. 

Robert  Hord,  L.  B Caroline. 

Waller  Massie,  L.B Nelson. 

Christopher  C.  Peace, 

L.  B.... North  Carolina. 

Ruf us  S.  Rermolds,  L.  B.JEssex. 

Henry  Thorp,  L.  B Alabama. 

Henry  M.  Vaiden,  L.  B..New  Kent. 

Wm.  J.  Widgen,  L.  B.... Northampton. 

G.  G.  Williams,  L.  B Norfolk. 

William  F.  Avent Greensville Son  of  Tomline  Avent. 

C.  Barbour Culpeper Son  of  Hon.  J.  S.  Barbour. 

J.  L.  Burwell Clarke Son  of  G.  Burwell. 

E.  Christian Richmond. 

John  R.  Coupland Petersburg C.  S.  A. 

J.  F.  Flewellen Georgia. 

Charles  J.  Fox Yorktown. 

J.  C.  Garlick King  William. 

John  L.  Jones Gloucester. 

Thomas  Latane Essex1 Son  of  Henry  Latane. 

Benjamin  Lewis Mecklenburg. 

Bev.  St.  Geo.T.  Peachy.. Williumsburg -...Son  of  Dr.  T.  G.  Peachy.  Sur- 
geon C.  S.  A. 

Charles  L.  Scott Richmond Son  of  Rob't  G.  Scott.  Member 

Congress  from  California  and 
Major  C.  S.  A. 

N.  M.  Slaughter Georgia. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  139 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  KEMAEKS. 

W.  R.  Staples Patrick  county Son  of  A.  Staples.  Judge  Court 

of  Appeals. 
P.  Montagu  Thompson... Richmond Son  of  Garland  Thompson. 


1845-46. 

Wm.  H.  Campbell,  A.  B..Hanover Son  of  Hugh  CampbeU. 

Richard  M.  Gary,  A.  B... Hampton. 

Jos.  S.  Dejarnette,  A.  B. Caroline Son  of  Elliott  Dejarnette. 

R.  P.  Fauntleroy,  A.  B..King  &  Queen Son  of  M.  G.  Fauntleroy. 

John  F.  Jones,  A.  B Warwick Son  of  Wm.  S.  Jones. 

Robt.  L.  Madison,  A.  B..Petersburg. 

Sterling  Neblett,  A.  B...Lunenburg Son  of  Dr.  S.  Neblett. 

John  P.  Nelson,  A.  B Alabama. 

Thos.  G.  Peachy,  A.  B...Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  T.  G.  Peachy. 

Charles  H.  Shield,  A.  B..Norfolk Son  of  Charles  H.  Shield. 

Joel  A.  Billups,  L.  B Georgia. 

Daniel  H.  Foster,  L.  B...Mathews Son  of  R.  Foster. 

James  F.  Jenkins,  L.  B... Suffolk. 

John  W.  King,  L.  B Mecklenburg. 

Joseph  H.  Lewis,  L.  B... Essex Son  of  Warner  Lewis. 

Bernard  Peyton,  L.  B... Richmond Son  of  Bernard  Peyton. 

Sydney  Smith,  L.  B Williamsburg. 

J.  N.  B.  Thomas,  L.  B...Isle  of  Wight ..Son  of  Josiah  Thomas. 

Geo.  G.  Thompson,  L.  B..Culpeper. 

Richard  A.  Barker Richmond. 

Arthur  Brown Westmoreland. 

Henry  B.  Brown Richmond. 

C.  C.  Chalmers Isle  of  Wight Son  of  James  Chalmers. 

J.  L.  Claiborne .Pittsylvania Son  of  Leonard  Claiborne. 

William  H.  Curtis Warwick Son  of  Dr.  D.  P.  Curtis. 

William  A.  Durfey Williamsburg Son  of  W.  Durfey. 

John  R.  Jameson Lunenburg. 

Anderson  W.  Kercheval..Hampshire. 

C.  R.  McAlpine Portsmouth. 

James  D.  McEvery Louisiana. 

James  E.  McFarland Petersburg. 

John  F.  Miller Greenbrier. 

James  M.  Pasteur Alabama. 

John  L.  Scott Dinwiddie Son  of  Wm.  B.  Scott. 

William  A.  Scott u         "  » 

Walter  Scott Richmond Son  of  Robert  G.  Scott. 

John  A.  Selden Charles  City .Son  of  John  A.  Selden. 

J.  P.  Taylor Nottoway. 

F.  J.  Thompson Culpeper Son  of  F.  J.  Thompson. 

T.  H.  Urquhart Southampton Son  of  C.  F.  Urquhart. 

William  R.  Vaughan Hampton Son  of  James  M.  Vaughau. 


140  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

William  J.  Waller Williamsburg Son  of  Benj.  Waller. 

Win.  JR.  Wood...  ...Amelia...  ,...Son  of  Alfred  Wood. 


1846-47. 

James  S.  Christian,  A.  M...  Williamsburg...^...  Son  of  Judge  John  B.  Christian. 
Joseph  A.  Lewis,  A.  M. 

John  B.  Christian,  A.  B "  Son  of  Judge  JohnB.  Christian. 

Robert  Christian,  A.  B "  " 

Peyton  S.  Coles,  A.  B Albemarle Son  of  Col.  John  Coles. 

Miles  K.  Crenshaw,  A.  B...Fluvanna. 

J.  Henry  Earnest,  A.  B Hanover Son  of  J.  H.  Earnest. 

W.  J.  Ilaile,  A.  B. 

Julian  Harrison,  A.  B Goochland Son  of  Randolph  Harrison.  Col. 

C.  S.  A. 

Archi.  McCandlish,  A.  B...Williamsburg Son  of  Robert  McCandlish. 

Vine.  D.  Markham,  A.  B...Powhatan Son  of  Vincent  Markham. 

Simon  B.  Marye,  A.  B Mississippi. 

Hugh  M.  Waller,  A.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  Robert  P.  Waller. 

Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

Thos.  N.  Watson,  A.  B Richmond Son  of  Dr.  G.  Watson. 

Robt.  B.  Armistead,  L.  B.. Alabama. 

Jos.  S.  R.  Clarke,  L.  B Williamsburg. 

Saml.  H.  Hairston,  L.  B... Mississippi. 

Jas.  Barren  Hope,  L.  B Norfolk Editor  and  Poet.    Major  C.  S.  A. 

William  B.  Jones,  L.B Warwick Son  of  W.  S.  Jones.     Capt.  C. 

S.  A. 

Woodson  C.  Moody Williamsburg. 

John  Motley,  L.  B King  &  Queen Son  of  John  Motley.    Capt.  C . 

S.  A. 
Eaton  Nance,  L.  B Richmond. 

A.  S.  Norment,  L.  B Hanover Son  of  Joseph  Norment. 

Jesse  T.  Bernard Portsmouth Son  of  Overton  Bernard. 

John  S.  Burwell Clarke Son  of  George  H.  Burwell. 

John  M.  Chevers OldPoint Son  of  Rev.  M.  L.  Chevers. 

William  J.  Councill Suffolk. 

Charles  Dabney.'. Mississippi. 

Thomas  M.  Fleming Goochland Son  of  Tarlton  Fleming.    C.  S. 

A. 

John  E.  Friend Chesterfield. 

G.  W.  Harrison Brunswick. 

John  Heii'!«-r-on Georgia. 

Reuben  li.  Hiekv P>nui<\viek Son  of  Thomas  Hicks. 

B.  C.  Houston Georgia. 

Samuel    Iluiston Henry  eonnty. 

(,.-ori:f  15.  Jones Hampton Son  of  .Mm  Jones. 

James  KVnt Petersburg Son  of  Charles  Kent. 

William  II.  Mitehell Itiehmoml Son  of  William  Mitchell. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  141 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

J.  J.  Moody Essex. 

George  W.  Shields Norfolk Son  of  William  C.  Shields. 

Philip  E.  Tabb Gloucester Son  of  Philip  E.  Tabb. 

P.  A.  Taliaferro "         Son  of  W.  T.  Taliaferro.     Sur- 
geon C.  S.  A. 

Thomas  W.  Upshur Norfolk Son  of  George  P.  Upshur. 

Joseph  Yaiden New  Kent Son  of  H.  D.  Vaiden. 

B.  H.  Walker Greensville Son  of  W.  F.  Walker. 

James  C.  Walton Brunswick Son  of  R,  H.  H.  Walton. 

JuniusL.  Weisiger Goochland C.  S.  A. 


1847-48. 

Richard  S.  Eubank,  A.  B... Essex Son  of  William  Eubank. 

C.  W.  Murdaugh,  A.  B Portsmouth Son  of  James  Murdaugh. 

Richard  Coke,  L.  B Williarusburg Son  of  John  Coke.     Governor 

of  Texas  1874.    Capt.  C.  S.  A. 
S.  A.  Goodwynn,  L.  B Greensville. 

A.  J.  Henshaw,  L.B Alabama. 

R.  L.  Kent,  L.  B Charlotte. 

R.  J.  Lackey,  L.  B Northumberland  ...Son  of  John  T.  Lackey. 

H.  J.  Lee,  L.  B , Lunenburg Son  of  Rev.  H.  Lee. 

Joseph  E.  N.  Lewis,  L.  B.Jefferson Son  of  John  H.  Lewis. 

G.  C.  W.  Palmore,  L.  B Cumberland Son  of  John  L.  Palmore. 

St.  George  Tucker,  L.  B Winchester Son  of  H.  St.  George  Tucker. 

Lt.  Col.  C.  S.  A. 
W.  Armistead Alabama Son  of  William  Armistead. 

B.  B.  Botts Richmond Son  of  John  Minor  Botts. 

James  T.  Bowyer Botetourt Son  of  H.  W.  Bowyer. 

Tucker  S.  Coles Albemarle Son  of  John  Coles. 

S.  H.  Davies Greensville. 

W.  A.  Dudley Petersburg. 

Joseph  Edwards Surry. 

R.  E.  Harris Nelson. 

John  T.  Lyle Richmond Son  of  James  Lyle. 

W.H.Lyons "         Son  of  James  Lyons.      Judge 

Hustings     Court,     Richmond 

city. 

A.  T.  Mason Dinwiddie Son  of  William  Mason. 

Jesse  A.Parker Isle  of  Wight. 

W.  H.  Priddy Hanover. 

R.  Randolph Alabama Son  of  Carter  Randolph. 

Leroy  H.  Redwood "      Son  of  W.  H.  Redwood. 

Robert  W.  Starke ......Richmond Son  of  Joseph  Starke. 

J.  P.  Taliaferro Baltimore Son  of  B.  G.  Taliaferro. 

Langdon  C.  Taylor Williamsburg Son  of  E.  D.  Taylor. 

A.  B.  Tucker Winchester Son  of  Henry  St.  George  Tucker. 


142  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  BE8IDENCES.  HEMABKfi. 

James  G.  Tyler Hanover Son  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Tyler. 

Tully  K.  Wise Washington  city. ..Son  of  T.  R.  Wise. 


1848*-49. 

John  R.  Bland,  L.  B. 

Richard  S.  Eubank,  L.  B... Essex Son  of  William  Eubank. 

Joel  Hayes,  L.  B Gloucester Son  of  Joel  Hay.s. 

Cassius  Lee,  L.  B Alexandria. 

Edwin  T.  Mapp,  L.  B Accomac. 

Wm.  C.  Nash Powhatan Son  of  Judge  Nash. 

H.  Tinker Alabama. 


1849-50. 

J.  B.  Christian,  A.  M.,  L.B.Williamsburg Son  of  Judge  John  B.  Christian. 

Robert  Christian,  A.  M 

A.  McCandlish,  A.M.,L.B.  Son  of  Robert  McCandlish. 

H.  M.  Waller,  A.  M Son  of  Dr.  Robert  P.  Waller. 

Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

Ambrose  S.  Lee,  L.  B Lunenburg Son  of  Rev.  H.  Lee. 

J.  A.  Jones,  L.  B Hampton Son  of  W.  W.  Jones. 

George  Mason,  L.  B Winchester Son  of  Hon.  J.  W.  Mason. 

Talbot  Sweeny,  L.  B Wqiiamsburg. 

John  S.  Coles Albemarle. 

S.  D.  Dickinson Georgia. 

William  H.  Fauntleroy King  and  Queen. 

H.  B.  Hammond Maine. 

Randolph  Harrison Goochland Son  of  Randolph  Harrison.  Col. 

C.  S.  A. 

O.  D.  McCarty Richmond  county-Son  of  J.  B.  McCarty. 

Robert  B.  Martin North  Carolina. 

W.R.  Mason King  George Son  of  W.  R.  Mason. 

Colin  Neblett Lunenburg Son  of  Dr.  S.  Neblett. 

Henry  J.  Porter Georgia. 

Tazewell  Tyler Charles  City Son  of  Hon.  John  Tyler.  Sur- 
geon C.  S.  A. 

1850-51. 

William  Blane,  L.  B Halifax Son  of  Jacob  Blanc. 

Isaac  H.  Christian,  L.  B... Charles  City Son  of  I.  II.  Christian. 

Lemuel  Napier,  L.  B Alabama. 

Wm.  E.  Atkinson Limcnlmrg  Son  of  R.  B.  Atkinson. 

A.  J.  Brent NorthmnbiTlanil. 

*  There  were  no  exercises  in  any  but  the  Law  Department  daring  this  year. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  143 

NAMES.  EESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

William  W.  Douglas Williamsburg Son  of  Win.  K.  C.  Douglas. 

Surgeon.  C.  S.  A.  U.  S.  Con- 
sul. 

William  R.  Fleming Goochland Son  of  Tarlton  Fleming.  Lieut. 

C.  S.  A. 

C.  A.  Harrison.. Cumberland. 

Caspar  McElfresh Maryland. 

E.  H.  Pollard Albemarle Son  of  Richard  Pollard. 

John  S.  Prout Washington  city. ...Prof.  Medical  College,  Brooklyn, 

N\  Y. 

J.  Speed  Rudd Fredericksburg Son  of  Capt.  Rudd. 

W.  F.  Shield Norfolk Son  of  Charles  H.  Shield. 

J.  F.  Tucker Mississippi. 

William  H.  Urquhart Isle  of  Wight. 

William  A.  Washington Westmoreland Son  of  Lawrence  Washington. 

Benjamin  T.  Williamson... Richmond Son  of  D.  G.  Williamson. 


1851-52. 

Robert  H.  Bush,  B.  P* James  City Son  of  William  Bush. 

Walter  Gwynne,  B.  P Richmond Son  of  Walter  Gwynne. 

John  H.  Ivy,  A.  B North  Carolina Son  of  Benjamin  W.  Ivy. 

Philip  A.  Johnson,  A.  B...Dlinois. 

W.  M.  Pendleton,  B.  P Norfolk Son  of  E.  Pendleton. 

W.  Y.  Peyton,  A.  B Williamsburg. 

A.  G-.  Tinsley,  B.  P Richmond Son  of  Thomas  G.  Tinsley. 

W.  A.  Todd,  A.  B Norfolk Son  of  Mallory  M.  Todd. 

Chann.  M.  Williams,  A.  M..Williamsburg Episcopal  Bishop  to  China. 

John  B.  Amiss Rappahannock Son  of  E.  Amiss. 

T.  J.  Barham Sussex. 

John  Boiling Richmond. 

S.  Brooks Chesterfield Son  of  T.  H.  Brooks. 

John  W.  Clowes Williamsburg Son  of  Peter  Clowes.     C.  S.  A, 

Benjamin  F.  Demnead Baltimore,  Md Son  of  Adam  Denmead. 

Edward  Denmead " 

William  T.  Fisher Northampton Son  of  Thomas  Fisher. 

John  T.  Fitchett "  Son  of  George  P.  Fitchett. 

John  Fontaine Georgia Son  of  John  Fontaine. 

Thomas  T.  Gait Fluvanna Son  of  William  Gait. 

John  K.  Johns Baltimore  Son  of  Henry  D.  Johns. 

E.  E.  Kellam Accomac. 

Samuel  S.  Kirkland North  Carolina Son  of  J.  W.  Kirkland.    Capt, 

C.  S.  A. 

G.  E.  Labby Lynchburg. 

E.  G.  Lee Jefferson Son  of  E.  J.  Lee. 

William  E.  Lively Williamsburg Son  of  Charles  Lively. 

*  Bachelor  of  Philosophy. 


144  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  EEMARKS. 

John  W.  Nottingham Son  of  A.  T.  Nottingham. 

J.  K.  Purnell Worcester Son  of  Jonn  S.  Purnell. 

John  W.  Scott Fauquier. 

Edward  Smith Warren  county. 

L.  W.  Smith Norfolk Son  of  A.  S.  Smith. 

William  T.  Snead Accomac Son  of  Charles  Snead. 

G.  L.  Thrift Norfolk. 

L.  Whelan Louisiana. 

John  T.  Williams Prince  William Son  of  John  Williams. 

Walter  Winn Louisiana. 

1852-53. 

W.  M.  A.  Brodnax,L.  B... Alabama ....Son  of  J.  W.  Brodriax. 

0.  L.  McCrae,  B.  P Prince  William Son  of  Dr.  J.  W.  F.  McCrae. 

D.  McChichester,  B.  P Fairfax Son  of  J.  E.  McChichester. 

John  B.  Donovan,  L.  B Gloucester Son  of  Cornelius  Donovan.    C. 

S.  A. 

C.  F.  Goodwynn,  L.  B Greensville. 

W.  Gwynn,  L.  B Richmond Son  of  Walter  Gwynn. 

Jno.  S.  Hansborough,  A.M.Orange Episcopal  Clergyman. 

S.  G.  Harris,  A.  B Mecklenburg Surgeon  C.  S.  A. 

George  K.  Hart,  L.  B Baylesburg. 

E.  H.  Henry,  A.  B Fauquier Son  of  Dr.  E.  H.  Henry. 

J.  B.  Jett,  B.  P Westmoreland Son  of  James  Jett.  Judge  State 

Court. 

George  W.  Stone,  A.  M Brunswick Son  of  George  St6ne. 

A.  Stubblefield,  L.  B Charles  City Son  of  J.  S.  Stubblefield. 

W.  W.  Trent,  B.  P Cumberland Son  of  C.  Trent. 

James  M.  Wise,  A.  M Washington,  D.  C..Son  of  Tully  R.  Wise.  Capt.  C. 

S.  A. 

George  D.  Wise,  A.  B Accomac Son  of  John  J.  Wise.  Capt.  C. 

S.  A.  Killed  before  Peters- 
burg. 

Obadiah  J.  Wise,  L.  B "  Son  of  Henry  A.  Wise,  Governor 

of  Virgina.  Editor  ''Richmond 
Enquirer."  Capt.  C.  S.  A. 
Killed  at  battle  Roanoke 
Island. 

Robert  E.  Wynne,  L.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Thomas  Wynne-. 

George  G.  Atkins " 

C.  F.  Berkley  Li.mloiin Son  of  Lewis  Borki-lry.  Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 

E.  F.  Bowyer Fincastlc Son  of  II.  W.  Bowyer. 

F.  E.  Bufonl Mnmswirk Son  of  Win.  I'.  Huford. 

John  H.  Clark Halifax Son  of  .John  T.  Clark. 

George  II.  (Joke Williamsburg Son  of  John  Coke.     Surgeon  <'. 

B,   \. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 


145 


NAMES. 

John  W.  Custis Accomac. 

N.  H.  Fisher Northampton Son  of  M.  W.  Fisher. 

W.  Green Warrenton Son  of  E.  F.  Green. 

R.  Gregory King  William. 

E.L.  Hooff Jefferson. 

D.  F.May Petersburg Son  of  David  May.    SurgeonC. 

S.  A. 
James  May "         Son  of  David  May.     Officer  C. 

S.  A. 

J.  Michie "         Son  of  Dr.  W.  G.  Michie. 

S.  H.  Newman Baltimore. 

John  K.  Nichols Georgia Son  of  S.  W.  Nichols. 

R.  Nottingham Northampton Son  of  L.  B.  Nottingham. 

A.  A.  O'Neel Monroe. 

T.  C.  Parramore Accomac Judge  State  Court. 

JohnM.  Pettitt Williamsburg Son  of  William  M.  Pettitt.     C. 

S.  A. 

W.  H.  Shield York Son  of  WiUiam  H.  Shield.    Sur- 
geon C.  S.  A. 

G.  H.  Shorter Georgia. 

P.  T.Sutton Hanover Son  of  James  Sutton.    Capt.  C. 

S.  A. 

Watkins  Warren Williamsburg.. Son  of  Dr.  M.  S.  Warren. 

H.  M.  Washington Brentsville Son  of  J.  M.Washington, 

Charles  Wilkinson Norfolk Son  of  J.  Wilkinson. 

W.  G.  Williams Orange Son  of  L.  B.  Williams. 

Wm.  Williamson " 

W.  N.  J.  Winder Northampton. 

J.  H.  D.  Wingfield Portsmouth Son  of  Rev.   J.  H.   Wingfield. 

Episcopal  clergyman. 
H.  A.  Wise Accomac Son  of  Hon.   Henry  A.   Wise. 

Episcopal  clergyman. 

1853-54. 


A.  Ashton,  B.  P King  George. 

M.  D.  Ball,  A.  B Fairfax 

Wm.  H.  Burroughs,  L.  B... Princess  Anne. 

A.  Coke,  B.  P Williamsburg... 

C.  R.  Grandy,  A.  B Norfolk 

J.  S.  Gilliam,  A.  M Petersburg 

William  Lamb,  B.  P...     ...Norfolk 


B.  T.  Tayloe,  B.  P Prince  George 

T.  G.  Wynne,  A.  B Williamsburg... 

R.  P.  Alexander Mecklenburg..., 

H.  M.  Ashby.. Fauquier 

J.  E.  Bland King  &  Queen 

12 


....Son  of  S.  M.  BaU.    Col.  C.  S.  A. 

....Son  of  J.  J.  Burroughs. 

.... Son  of  John  Coke.  Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

....Son  of  C.  W.  Grandy. 

....Surgeon  C.  S.  A. 

....Son  of  William  W.  Lamb.     Col . 

C.  S.  A. 
....Son  of   E.  T.  Tayloe.     Officer 

C.  S.  A. 

....Son  of  R.  C.  Wynne. 
....Son  of  M.  Alexander. 
....Col.  C.  S.  A. 
,...Son  of  Robert  Bland. 


146  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  BEMABKS. 

.Roderick  Bland. Son  of  Roderick  Bland. 

R.  E.  Bland ..City  Point Son  of  J.  B.  Bland. 

R.  T.  Bland Middlesex Son  of  A.  Bland. 

Edward  F.  Brodnax North  Carolina Son  of  R.  Brodnax. 

Cassius  Carter Prince  William. 

H.  E.  Coleman Halifax Son  of  John  Coleman.     Col.  C. 

S.  A. 

J.  Gushing  Dame Danville Son  of  Rev.  George  W.  Dame. 

Win.  P.  Dixon Alexandria Son  of  Turner  Dixon. 

Joseph  W.  Glover Prince  George Son  of  Archibald  Glover. 

James  T .  Harris Mecklenburg. 

Washington  Hunt Northampton. 

J.  J.  Lampkin Kinsale,  Va. 

W.  T.  Lipscombe Williamsburg Son  of  Roscow  Lipscombe. 

T.  L.  Lomax KingGeorge Son  of  M.  S.  Lomax.     Officer 

C.  S.  A. 

D'ArcyPaul ..Norfolk Son  of  S.  W.  Paul. 

William  Pettis Williamsburg Episcopal  clergyman. 

George  T.  Scarburgh Son  of  Judge  G.  P.  Scarburgh. 

Surgeon  C.  S.  A. 
W.  S.  O.  Slade Washington,  D.  C..Son  of  William  O.  Slade.    Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 

W.  W.  Strachan ....Petersburg Son  of  F.  F.  Strachan. 

Van  Taliaferro Lynchburg Son  of  B.  B.  Taliaferro. 

Henry  A.  Tayloe Richmond Son  of  W.  H.  Tayloe.    C.  S.  A. 

M.  J.  White Mississippi Son  of  Franklin  White. 

Thomas  G.  Williamson Portsmouth Son  of  Lieut.  G.  G.  Williamson. 

Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

W.  D.  Winston Hanover Son  of  W.  D.  Winston. 

George  D.  Wise" Washington,  D.C..Sonof  T.R.Wise.  Capt.  C.S.A. 

Andrew  F.  Withers Fauquier C.  S.  A. 


1854-55. 

Charles  R.  Grandy,  A.  M..Norfolk Son  of  C.  W.  Grandy. 

Wm.  J.  Morrisett,  A.  M.... Williamsburg. 

I!.  MrPhail  Smith,  A.  M... North  Carolina Son  of  L.  L.  Smith. 

Walk,  r  V.  .  Vest,  A.  M Williamsburg Son  of  W.  W.  Vest.     C.  S.  War 

Department. 
I).  Hloxhain,  L.  B.... Florida Son  of  William  Hloxhani. 

\.  Citric,  L.  u Ohfcrlei  city >.„,  ,,«•  .1. .}.  dark.    0.  s.  \. 

J.  ]>,.  .Irti.  L.  P, Wcstmon-laml  Son  of  .lame-  .l.-n.     C.  S.  A. 

|  nub,  I-.  !'»..  I!.  l'....\..rf..Ik Son  of  William  W.  Lamb.     Col. 

c.  8 

IVmllcton,  L.  B WillianM.iirir Son  of  William  IVn.llrton. 

Win.  V.  IVyio n.  L.K.. A. B.. 

T.  W.  'I'll'  M..M!..|-\illc •-.  .lohn 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  147 


NAMES.  RESIDENCES. 

Geo.  D.  Wise,L.B.,A.  B...Accomac Son  of  John  J.  Wise.    Capt.  C. 

S.  A.  Killed  before  Petersb'g. 
A.  Taylor  Bell,  A.  B Norfolk Son  of  Alexander  Bell.   Surgeon 

C.  S.  A. 
Hill  Carter,  Jun.,  A.  B Shirley Son  of  Hill  Carter.    Officer  C. 

S.  A.    Killed  at  Wilderness. 
Claudius  K.  Hains,  A.  B.... South  Carolina Son  of  C.  K.  Hains.    Episcopal 

clergyman. 
Wm.  F.  M.  Jacobs,  A.  B...Martinsburg Son  of  B.  L.  Jacobs.    Episcopal 

clergyman. 

John  N".  Murphy,  A.  B Westmoreland. 

R.  H.  Murphy,  A.  B  Old  Point  Comfort. Son  of  J.  W.  Murphy.     Episco- 

clergyman. 

Alfred  M.  Randolph,  A.  B..Fauquier Son  of  Robt.  L.  Randolph.  Epis- 
copal clergyman. 
J.  R.  Robertson,  A.  B Petersburg Son  of  James  Robertson.    C.  S. 

A. 
Chas.  S.  Stringfellow,  A.B..        "         Son  of  Rev.  H.  Stringfellow.— 

Maj.  C.  S.  A. 

Cyrus  W.  Grandy,  B.  P.... North  Carolina. 
Henry  Gwynn,  B.  P Raleigh Son  of  Walter  Gwynn.    Officer 

C.  S.  A. 
F.  C.  S.  Hunter,  B.  P.......King  George Son  of  Dr.  Thomas  L.  Hunter. 

Officer  C.  S.  A. 
A.  W.  C.  Nowlin,  B.  P Wytheville Son  of  B.  W.  Nowlin.      State 

Senator. 

John  M.  Adams Alabama Son  of  R.  H.  Adams. 

Thomas  Ball Richmond  county. C.  S.  A. 

Robert  A.  Bright Williamsburg Son  of  Samuel  F.  Bright.    Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 

E.  B.  Challener James  City. 

John  R.  Chilton Lancaster. 

John  A.  Clarke Charles  City Son  of  J.  J.  Clarke.     C.  S.  A. 

A.  S.  Davidson Louisiana Son  of  Dr.  J.  P.  Davidson. 

Richard  A.  Davis Gloucester Son  of  R.  A.  Davis. 

Riddick  Gatling Son  of  Riddick  Gatling. 

E.  C.  Gee Brunswick. 

J.  P.  Gilliam Dinwiddie. 

Edward  M.  Harris Brunswick Son  of  John  S.  Harris. 

W.  L.  Henderson. 

Parke  Jones... James  City ...Sou  of  William  M.  Jones. 

Edward  H.  Lively Williamsburg C.  S.  A. 

Junius  E.  Marks Prince  George Son  of  E.  A.  Marks.     C.  S.  A. 

E.Morrissett Chesterfield Son  of  T.  E.Morrissett.   C.S.A. 

John  T.  Perrin Gloucester Son  of  William  K.  Perrin.     Maj. 

C.  S.  A. 
John  H.  Sands Williamsburg Son  of  Johnson  Sands.   Capt.  C . 

S.  A. 


148  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

T.  E.  Sbands Prince  George. 

A.  S.  Smith Norfolk Son  of  Rev.  A.  S.  Smith.     C.  S. 

A. 
J.  R.  Smith "      Son  of  Rev.  A.  S.  Smith.    C.  S. 

A. 

A.  H.  Smyth Alexandria. 

Joseph  W.  Southall Amelia Son  of  Dr.  P.  T.  Southall. 

John  S.  Sullavan Lancaster  C.  S.  A. 

Edwin  Sully Alexandria C.  S.  A. 

Douglas  W.  Trower Northampton. 

H.  B.  Warren James  City Son  of  M.  S.  Warren.    C.  S.  A. 

1855-56. 

Henry  E.  Clark,  A.  M Halifax Son  of  J.  T.  Clark. 

A.  D.  Payne,  A.  M Fauquier Son  of  R.  Payne.    Col.  C.  S.  A. 

Henry  C.  Slaughter,  A.  M..Pittsylvania Son  of  C.  D.  Slaughter. 

P.  Bell  Smith,  A.  M Fauquier Son  of  Hon.  Wm.  Smith.     Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 
Thomas  P.  Smith,  A.M....        "      Son  of  Hon.  Wm.  Smith.    Col. 

C.  S.  A. 
Thos.  T.  L.  Snead,  A.  M...Accomac Son  of  George  F.  Snead.    Prof- 

Mathematics  William  and  Mary 

(Jollege.    Capt.  C.  S.  A. 
W .  Talbot  Walke,  A.M....  Norfolk Son  of  Richard  Walke .    Officer 

C.  S.  A. 
Alexander  Coke,  L.  B Williamsburg Son  of  John  Coke.    Capt.  r.  s. 

A. 

Edgar  B.  Montague,  L.  B..Middlesex Col.  C.  S.  A. 

James  B.  Pannill,  L.  B... . Pittsylvania Son  of  William  L.  Pannill.    C. 

S.  A. 
James  H.  Barnes,  A.  B James  City Son  of  William  H.  Barnes.     C. 

S.  A. 

Robt.  J.  Graves,  A.  B Albany,  N.  Y Presbyterian  clergyman. 

Wm.  H.  Graves,  A.  B Wythe Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  W.  Payne,  A.  B Fauquier Son  of  R.  Payne.      Surgi-ou  ( 

S.  A. 

Samuel  J.  Hough,  B.  P Baltimore Son  of  S.  11.  Hough. 

D.  S.  Baldwin Richmond Son  of  O.  P.  Baldwin. 

Woodville  Bowyer Fincastle Son  of  H.  W.  I5<>\\ y«  i -. 

Julian  R.  Beckwith Prince  Georgr s,,n  of  Dr.  T.  S.  Beckwith.     C. 

s.  ,\. 
P  (^   ]$,-,.  Botctum-t Sonof  CuyBreokinridgei  <'-q»t 

C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  H.  Clay \m.-l''a C.  S.  A. 

J.  C.  Dame Danville Son  of  Rev.  G.  W.  Dame, 

Samuel  D.  Davies Prince  George Son  of  John  B.  Davies. 

J.  E.  S.  Delk Isleof  Wight Son  of  Jeremiah  Delk. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALTJMKI.  149 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

S.  D.  Delk Isle  of  Wight Son  of  Jeremiah  Delk. 

K.  R.  Games Alabama Son  of  W.  D.  Gaines. 

W.  K.  Gatewood Middlesex Son  of  Dr.  W.  L.  Gate  wood.    C. 

S.  A. 
Jno.  W.  Green Culpeper Son  of  William  Green,  Esq.    C. 

S.  A.    Killed  in  battle. 
John  Jerdone Orange Son  of  Francis  Jerdone.    C.  S. 

A. 

Geo.  W.  Johnston Norfolk Son  of  James  H.  Johnston. 

RosweU  Lindsay Williamsburg Son  of  William  T.  Lindsay.    C. 

S.  A. 

William  E.  Lively "  Son  of  Charles  Lively.     C.S.A. 

Goodrich  Mitchell Fauquier Son  of  Dr.  R.  T.  Mitchell.    C. 

S.  A. 

R.  W.  Nottingham Northampton. 

Richard  M.  Page Gloucester Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

William  H.  Pettitt Williamsburg...' Son  of  Wm.  M.  Pettitt.     C.  S. 

A.    Died  in  service. 

Robt.  M.  Spencer Greensville Son  of  D.  W.  Spencer.    C.  S.  A. 

Isaiah  H.  White Accomac Son  of  S.  C.  White.    Surgeon  C. 

S.  A. 
Thomas  G.  Williamson Caroline Son  of  G.  G.  Williamson.    Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 

1856-57. 

D.  U.  Barziza,  A.  M Williamsburg Son  of  P.  J.  Barziza.    Capt.  C. 

S.  A. 
R.  W.  Lamb,  A.  M Norfolk Son  of  W.  W.  Lamb.    Capt.  C. 

S.A. 
T.  P.  McCandlish,  A.  M... Williamsburg Son  of  Colonel  R.  McCandlish. 

Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

Richard  Walke,  A.  M Norfolk Son  of  Rich'd  Walke.    C.  S.  A. 

Philip  J.  Barziza,  L.B Williamsburg Son  of  P.  J.  Barziza. 

Paul  C.  Edmunds,  L.  B... .Halifax Son  of  J.R.  Edmunds.    Officer 

C.  S.  A. 

W.  H.  Graves,  A.B.,L.  B..Wytheville Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

R.  McPhail  Smith, 

A.  M.,  L.  B... North  Carolina Son  of  L.  L.  Smith. 

G.  W.  Stone,  A.  M.,  L.  B..Bruns\vick Son  of  George  Stone.    C.  S.  A. 

Philip  M.  Arnold,  A.  B.  ...King  George Son  of  John  Arnold.    C.  S.  A. 

Thomas  T.  Arnold,  A.  B...         "  "  C.  S.  A. 

Edward  L.  Baptist,  A.  B... Mecklenburg Son  of  R.  H.  Baptist.    C.  S.  A. 

W.  I.  Clopton,  A.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Judge  J.  B.  Clopton.—- 

Capt.  C.  S.  A.     Judge  State 

court. 
Joseph  G.  Griswold,  A.  B..Richmond Son  of  C.  G.  Griswold.     Maj.  C. 

S.  A. 


150  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 


RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

Jesse  S.  Jones,  A.  B Hampton Lieut.  C.  S.  A. 

Edmunds  Mason,  A.  B Greensville Son  of  Dr.  George  Mason.  Sur- 
geon C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  C.  Parham,  A.  B Brunswick Son  of  Dr.  E.  H.  M.  Parham. 

Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

John  H.  Barlow Williamsburg Son  of  J.  H.  Barlow.  Officer  C. 

S.  A. 

Josiah  L.  Bayly Accomac Son  of  J.  J.  Bayly.  Captain  C. 

S.  A. 

Robert  A.  Bowry Williamsburg C.  S.  A. 

Thomas  E.  C.  Curtis Accomac. 

V.  H.  Fauntleroy Middlesex Son  of  Dr.  R.  B.  Fauntleroy. 

William  M.  Feild Dinwiddie Son  of  Dr.  Hume  Feild. 

Henry  M.  Isham New  York Son  of  A.  H.  Isham. 

J.  C.  P.  Kellam Accomac. 

John  W.  Lawson Williamsburg Surg'n  C.  S.  A.    State  Senator. 

John  S.  Lindsay Williamsburg Son  of  Thomas  Lindsay.  Epis- 
copal clergyman. 

J.  J.  H.  Newman Baltimore. 

R.  A.  Owens Williamsburg. 

B.  G.  Smith North  Carolina Son  of  William  R.  Smith. 

J.  S.  Spencer Greensville Son  of  Thomas  R.  Spencer.  C. 

S.  A. 

Charles  W.  Thomas Williamsburg Son  of  William  Thomas. 

T.  H.  Thompson Son  of  Willis  Thompson. 

R.  R.  Weisiger Goochland. 

1857-58. 

William  R.  Garrett,  A.  M. Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  R.  M.  Garrett.  Capt. 

S.  A. 

B.  St.  George  Tucker,A.M..  Son  of  Judge  B.  Tucker.  Sur- 

geon C.  S.  A. 

James  Monroe,  L.  B New  York Son  of  A.  Monroe,  and  nephew 

of  ex-President  Monroe. 

Joseph  W.  Stone,  L.  B Mississippi Son  of  J.  H.  Stone. 

William  R.  Sullivan,  L.  B..Williamsburg. 

Robert  G.  Taylor,  L.  B Gloucester C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  J.  H.  Ballard,  A.  B... Orange. 

John  H.  Beale,  A.  B Fredericksburg C.  S.  A. 

A.  S.  Furcron,  A.  B Clx'.storfield Son  of  Thomas  Furcron.  C.  S. 

A. 

Thomsis  W,  MUM.M,  A.  ]',...( ii.'.Mi^ville  Sou  of  Dr.  <i.  Mason.     C.  S.  A. 

S.  W.  Murphy,  A.  B Maryland Son  of  J.  W.  Murphy.  Episco- 
pal clergyman. 

H.  M.  Stringfellow,  A.  B... Hanover Son  of  Rev.  H.  Stringfellow.— 

Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

John  C.  Ames,  B.  P Washington,  D.  C..Son  of  George  C.  Ames. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI.  151 


Wra.  R.  Taliaferro,  B.  P... Orange Son  of  E.P.  Taliaferro.  C.  S.A. 

Charles  S.  Wools,  B.  P Vicksburg Lieut.  C.  S.  A. 

W.  A.  Bragg Petersburg Son  of  William  A.  Bragg. 

Charles  E.  Clay Bedford Son  of  P.  A.  Clay.    C.  S.  A. 

Octavius  Coke Williamsburg Son  of  John  Coke.  Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

C.  W.  Foreman Princess  Anne Son  of  John  F.  Foreman.  C.  S.A. 

W.  J.  Garnett Richmond Son  of  Jas.  M.  Garnett.  C.S.  A. 

P.  Hamilton Halifax Lieut.  C.  S.  A. 

Henry  Hunton Prince  William Son  of  Charles  H.  Hunton.    C. 

S.A. 

R.  W.  James Williamsburg Son  of  J.  T.  James.    C.  S.  A. 

George  E.Mann Gloucester Son  of   C.  Mann.     C.  S.   A. — 

Judge,  Galveston,  Texas. 
William  Marshall Fauquier Grandson  of  Chief  Justice.  Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 

Benjamin  H.  May Petersburg Son  of  Dr.  David  May.  C.  S.A. 

R.  A.  Parker Sussex Son  of  J.  H.  Parker.     C.  S.  A. 

John  Pierce Williamsburg Son  of  William  Pierce.   C.  S.  A. 

Charles  W.  Snead Accomac Son  of  Charles  Snead. 

L.L.  Snead "        "  " 

George  W.  Stone. 

A.  D.  Tapscott Lancaster. 


1858-59. 

R.  T.  Armistead Williamsburg Son  of  R.  H.  Armistead.  C.S.  A. 

Edmund  R.  Bagwell, Onancock Son  of  Dr.  Thomas  P.  Bagwell. 

Lieut.  C.  S.  A.  Gen'l  Virgin- 
ia Militia. 

Thomas  J.  Barlow Williamsburg Son  of  John  H.  Barlow.  Lieut. 

C.  S.  A. 

James  W.  Belvm Yorktown Son  of  James  Belvin.  Surgeon 

C.  S.  A. 

T.  R.  Bowden Williamsburg Son  of  L.  J.  Bowden. 

E.  Camm Son  of  Dr.  Edward  Camm.    C. 

S.A. 

Thomas  C.  Carrmgton "  C.  S.  A. 

S.  S.  Chevers Old  Point  Comfort. Son  of  Rev.  M.  L.  Chevers.  Epis- 
copal clergyman. 

F.  G.  Claiborne Halifax C.  S.  A. 

W.  S.Davis Brunswick Son  of  T.  S.  Davis.    C.  S.  A. 

T.  K.  Forniss Alabama Son  of  P.  D.  Forniss.     C.  S.  A. 

Killed  in  battle. 

Thomas  Clayton  Frame Delaware. 

A.  S.  Furcron Chesterfield C.  S.  A. 

S.  W.  Gary Norfolk C.  S.A. 

W.  Gait...,  Fluvanna Son  of  James  Gait.    C.  S.  A. 


152  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  KESIDENCES.  BEMAKKS. 

T.  R.  Harrison Richmond Son  of  William  M.  Harrison.— 

Lieut.  C.  S.  A. 

R.  T.  Hurt Petersburg Son  of  B.  T.  Hurt.     C.  S.  A. 

M.  Hurst Nortumberland Son  of  W.  Hurst. 

W.  R.  Hargrove Surry. 

R.  H.  Jones Hampton. 

Wickliffe  Kincheloe Virginia Son  of  B.  Kincheloe.     C.  S.  A. 

Killed  in  battle. 

George  W.  Lindsay Richmond Son  of  J.  M.  Lindsay.    C.  S.  A. 

George  H.  May Petersburg Son  of  Dr.  David  May.    C.  S.  A. 

H.  S.  McCandlish Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  Rob't  McCandlish. 

C.  S.  A. 

Norman  M.  Neblett Luneuburg Son  of  Sterling  Neblett.  C.  S.  A. 

George  H.  Poindexter Richmond Son  of  J.  H.  Poindexter.  C.  S.  A« 

D.  R.  Phifer Xorth  Carolina Son  of  C.  Phifer.     C.  S.  A. 

T.  V.  Robinson Richmond C.  S.  S. 

L.H.  Smith North  Carolina C.  S.  A. 

T.  S.  B.  Tucker Williamsburg Son  of  Judge  B.  Tucker.     Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 
R.  Totten "  Son  of  Silas  Totten.    Episcopal 

clergyman. 

James  E.  Worthen Richmond Son  of  John  Worthen.     C.  S.  A. 

Bobt.  E.  Wynn Petersburg Son  of  John  M.  Wynn.  C.  S.  A. 

W.G.Wynn "  "  u  C.  S.  A. 

William  L.  Young Warwick C.  S.  A. 

1859-60. 

Walter  E.  Weir,  A.  M Prince  William Son  of  William  J.  Weir.     Capt. 

C.  S.  A. 
Frank  H.  Alfriend,  A.  B... Richmond Son  of  Thomas  M.  Alfriend.    C. 

S.  A. 
J.  Filmer  Hubbard,  A.B... James  City Son  of  Dr.  C.  M.  Hubbard.     C. 

S.  A. 

T.  Jefferson  Stubbs,  A.  B..Gloucester Son  of  T.  J.  Stubbs.    C.  S.  A. 

William  Tayloe,  B.  P King  George Son  of  Col.  E.  T.  Tayloe.    <  . 

S.  A. 
Robt.  C.  Atkinson Smithfield Son  of  Hon.  A.   Atkinson.     C. 

S.  A. 

R.  A.  Blister Berlin Son  of  T.  J.  Blister.    C.  S.  A. 

\V.  N.  Causey Hampton Sonof  Willhm  Causey.   <  .  B,  A. 

A.  T.  Clarke. Willcox Son  of  J.  J.  Clarke.    C.  S.  A. 

W   H.  Day Grove  Hill W.  C.  Clanton,   Guardian.     C. 

S.  A.    ' 

H.  S.  Dix Williamsburg Son  of  John  s.  Dix.    r.  S.  A. 

Sterling  H.  Gee \Veldmi,  N.  C Son  of  Charles  J.  Gee.    Capt. 

C.  S.  A.  Killed  ;ii  Five  Forks. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  153 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMAKES. 

M.  R.  Harrell,  Jr Williamsburg Son  of  M.  R.  Harrell.     C.  S.  A. 

G.  B.  Harrison Cabin  Point Son  of  William  B.  Harrison.— 

C.  S.  A. 

J.  R.  Hubard Norfolk Episcopal  clergyman.     C.  S.  A. 

H.  T.  Jones,  Jr Willianisburg Son  of  H.  T.  Jones.     C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  Ap.  C.  Jones Gloucester  C.  H Mrs.  M.  A.  B.  Montague,  G'n. 

C.  S.  A. 

R.  B.  Lewis Oak  Grove Son  of  Geo.  Lewis.    C.  S.  A. 

J.  S.  Lindsay Williamsburg Son  of  Thos.  Lindsay.   Chaplain 

C.  S.  A. 
Thomas  H.  Mercer Son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Mercer.    Lieut. 

C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  H.  E.  Morecock Officer  C.  S.  A. 

John  D.  Myers Lexington Son  of  J.  H.  Myers.     C.  S.  A. 

N.  C.  Newton Norfolk Son  of  C.  W.  Newton.  C.  S.  A. 

W.  D.  Peachy Williamsburg Son  of  William  S.  Peachy.    C. 

S.  A. 
Geo.  Wilmer  Robertson.... Petersburg -..Son  of  James  Robertson.     C.  S. 

A. 

Wm.Sherwell Williamsburg C.  S.  A. 

L.  P.  Slater "  Son  of  P.  Slater.     C.  S.  A. 

John  Southgate Norfolk Tazewell  Taylor,  Guardian.     C. 

S.  A. 
J.  H.  Tucker San  Marino Son  of  Col.  E.  B.  Tucker.   C.  S. 

A. 
R.  B.  Tunstall,  Jr Norfolk Son  of  Dr.  R.  B.  Tunstall.    C. 

S.  A. 

P.  T.  Warren Onancock Son  of  Rev.  P.  Warren.    Metho- 
dist clergyman. 
John  Wilkinson Hallsboro' Son  of  Richard  Wilkinson.    C. 

S.  A. 
J.H.Williams Northampton L.    B.  Nottingham,   Guardian. 

Episcopal  minister. 
Richard  A.  Wise Norfolk Son  of  Henry  A.  Wise.     Capt. 

S.  A.    Prof,  of  Chemistry  of 

William  and  Mary  College. 
F.  M.  Wyman. Vicksburg,  Miss Son  of  Geo.  Wyman.    C.  S.  A. 

1860-61.* 

John  Archer  Coke,  A.  B... Williamsburg Son  of  John  Coke.     Capt.  C.  S. 

A. 
Charles  S.  Harrrison,  A.  B..Brandon,  Pr.  Geo..Son  of  Wm,  B.  Harrison.   Capt. 

%  C.  S.  A. 

B.  H.  B.  Hubbard,  A.  B... Lancaster Son  of  Wm.Hubbard.   C.  S.  A. 

*  From  1861  to  1865,  the  College  was  closed  because  of  the  war. 
13 


154  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  KHMABKS. 

George  Mason,  A.  B Greensville Son  of  Dr.  George  Mason.     C. 

S.  A. 
Charles  Poindexter,  A.  B..Richmond Son  of  J.  H.  Poindexter.    C.  S. 

A. 

James  N.  Stubbs.  A.  B Gloucester Son  of  T.  J.  Stubbs.    C.  S.  A. 

John  G.  Williams,  A.  B Orange Son  of  S.  B.  Williams.  C.  S.  A. 

Peyton  N.  Page,  B.  P Gloucester Major  C.  S.  A. 

Thomas  R.  Argyle ..Goochland  C.  H Son  of  T.  R.  Argyle.     C.  S.  A. 

Richard  J.  Ayres,  Jr Accomac Son  of  R.  J.  Ayres. 

Jos.  V.  Bidgood Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  R.  W.  Bidgood.    Lt. 

C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  O.  Browne Hicksford ....C.  S.  A. 

John  W.  Bush Burnt  Ordinary Son  of  William  Bush.    C.  S.  A. 

J.H.  Chandler Westmoreland H.  Bush,  Guardian.     C.  S.  A. 

J.  H.  Deans Gloucester Son  of  J.  L.  Deans.    C.  S.  A. 

John  G.  Dix Williamsburg Son  of  John  S.  Dix.    C.  S.  A. 

James  H.  Dix Accomac Judge  Geo.  P.  Scarburg,  Guar'n. 

C.  S.  A.    Died  in  service. 
Geo.  Benj.  Fosque Onancock Son  of  John  M.  Fosque.     C.  S. 

A. 
Worth  O.  Gwynn Norfolk Son  of  Major  T.  P.  Gwynn.    C. 

S.A. 

JamesHardy "        Son  of  Wm.  J.  Hardy.    C.S.A. 

Gresham  Hough Baltimore,  Md Son  of  W.  D.  Hough.    C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  Hoxton Washington,  D.  C..Dr.  King,  U.  S.  A.,  Guardian. 

Officer  C.S.A.  Episcopal  cler- 
gyman. 

H.  E.  Jordan Richmond Son  of  B.  J.  Jordan.      C.  S.  A. 

Fred.  C.  A.  Kellam,  Jr Accomac Son  of  F.  C.  A.  Kellam. 

Jas.  S.  Lawson James  City A.  W.  Hankins,  Guardian. 

A.  L.  Lippitt Alexandria Son  of  E.  R.  Lippitt. 

M.  A.Macmurdo Hanover Son  of  C.  W.  Macmurdo.     C. 

S.A. 
Henry  J.  Meade Bedford Jno.  A.  Wharton,  Guardian.    C. 

S.A. 

Geo.  S.  Miller Mathews Son  of  S.  G.  Miller.    C.  S.  A. 

H.  D.  Ponton Weldon,  N.  C Son  of  W.  H.  Ponton.  C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  A.  Reese Greensville J.  R.  Chambliss,  Guardian.    C. 

S.A. 

Wm.  Reynolds,  Jr Baltimore,  Md Son  of  William  Reynolds. 

H.  T.  Sharp Norfolk Son  of  W.  W.  Sharp.    C.  S.  A. 

Episcopal  clergyman. 

E.  W.  Spratley Greensville Son  of  W.  H.  Spratley.  C.S.A. 

W.  C.  Stubbs Gloucester Son  of  J.  W.  Stubbs.    C.  S.  A. 

Wm.  C.  Trueheart Prince  Edward C.  S.  A. 

A.  A.  Wash Montpelier Son  of  J.  C.  Wash.     C.S.A. 

John  N.Williams Norfolk Son  of  John  Williams.   C.S.A. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


155 


Son  of  E.  F.  Cole. 

u  u 

Son  of  John  S.  Charles. 

Son  of  R.  F.  Cole. 

Son  of  J.  B.  Cosnahan. 

44  U 


1865-66. 

NAMES.  KESIDENCES.  BEMARK8. 

fA.  J.  Adams Williamsburg Son  of  C.  J.  Adams. 

Laban  J.  Belote Eastville Son  of  Laban  Belote. 

fTucker  Brooke New  Kent. 

'O.  S.  Bunting Williamsburg Son  of  J.  Bunting. 

Frank  Camm "  Son  of  Dr.  E.  Camm. 

Charles  Camm "  "  " 

fj.  G.  Camm "  "  " 

fE.  P.  Cole " 

fJesseCole 

fJ.  S.  Charles .     " 

fR.  R.  Cole " 

fC.  W.  Cosnahan " 

|H.  M.  Cosnahan " 

|R.  W.  Cosnahan Richmond "  " 

fA.  S.  Cowles James  City Son  of  D.  S.  Cowles. 

fH.  B.  Cowles "         "  " 

fJ.  R.  Darden Williamsburg Son  of  W.  W.  Darden. 

fZ.  G.  Durfey "  Son  of  R.  G.  Durfey. 

fWm.E. Durfey "  Son  of  W.  C.  Durfey. 

John  G.  Dix "  Son  of  John  S.  Dix. 

John  B.  Douglas "  Son  of  William  R.  C.  Douglas. 

Samuel  Dunton Northampton Geo.  B.  Taylor,  Guardian. 

fAlex.  C.  Garrett Williamsburg. 

H.  W.  Garrett "  Son  of  Dr.  R.  M.  Garrett.    C. 

S.  A. 

V.  F.  Garrett "          Son  of  Dr.  R.  M.  Garrett. 

fT.  J.  Harrell "  Son  of  M.  R.  Harrell. 

T.  G.  Hallyburton Richmond Son  of  Judge  Jas.  D.  Hallybur- 

ton. 

|C.  F.Hurt Williamsburg. 

fD.  S.  Jones "          Son  of  H.  T.  Jones. 

R.  T.  Jones Charles  City. 

Wm.  L.  Jones Williamsburg Son  of  H.  T.  Jones. 

fJ.  C.  Lucas,  Jr "          Son  of  J.  C.  Lucas. 

fJ.  T.Lucas "  "  " 

jFrank  Mallory Hampton Son  of  Charles  K.  Mallory. 

fL.  Martin James  City Son  of  Dr.  William  Martin. 

|W.  Martin "        "  " 

fJ.  L.  Mercer ....Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Mercer. 

C.  W.  Mercer "  "  " 

t  Those  marked  thus  t  are  in  the  Preparatory  Department. 

All  students  who  are  known  to  have  been  in  the  Confederate  army  have  the  letters  C.  S . 
A.,  with  known  rank,  attached  to  their  names.  Some,  many  in  fact,  are  omitted,  and  as  it  is 
the  desire  of  the  Faculty  to  get  a  perfect  war  record  of  all  students,  additional  information 
is  solicited  from  all  concerned.— EDITOR. 


156  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


fR.  P.  Mercer Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Mercer. 

fNathan  Metzger "  Son  of  Joel  Metzger. 

fW.  E.Mullen 

J.Munford "  Son  of  Col.  John  D.  Munford. 

Robert  P.  Saimders "  Son  of  Robert  Saunders. 

Wm.  Sherwell " 

fW.  J.  Small "  Son  of  W.  J,  Small. 

fA.  E.  Smith "  Son  of  S.  Smith. 

fH.  Smith "  "            " 

fGeorge  T.  Smith "  Son  of  Isaac  Smith. 

fH.  M.  Sweeney « "  Son  of  M.  T.  Sweeney. 

B.  M.  B.  Tucker "  Son  of  Judge  Beverly  Tucker. 

T.  S.  B.  Tucker "  "                       " 

H.  R.  Vaughan John  A.  Henley,  Guardian. 

|H.  S.  Vaughan "  " 

GeorgeS.  Vest "  Son  of  W.  W.  Vest.    C.  S.A. 

fJ.  B.  Waller "  ..' Son  of  C.  C.  P.  Waller. 

fJames  M.  Wineberger James  City. 

fJno.  McCabe  Wineberger.  " 

Charles  P.  Williamson Caroline R.  W.  McGruder,  Guardian. 

John  A.  G.  Williamson "       

1866-67. 

M.  Dulany  Ball,  L.  B Fairfax Son  of  S.  M.  Ball. 

Samuel  J.  Hough,  L.  B Baltimore Son  of  Samuel  Hough. 

Wm.  Reynolds,  Jr.,  L.  B...        "        Son  of  William  Reynolds. 

Thomas  G.  Jones,  B.  P Middlesex. 

fT.  S.  Brown Williamsburg Son  of  Dixon  Brown. 

John  Camm "  Son  of  Dr.  E.  Camm. 

W.  D.  Clarke "  S.  S.  Moore,  Guardian. 

Woody  C.  Constable "  Mrs.  Susan  Curtis,  Guardian. 

H.  D.Cole "  Son  of  R.  P.  Cole. 

C.  R.  Cowles James  City Son  of  D.  S.  Cowles. 

J.  W.  Daugherty Williamsburg Son  of  L.  J.  Daugherty. 

S.  J.  Dixon Mrs.  Mary  Williamson,  Guard'n. 

R.  B.  Douglas "  Son  of  W.  R.  C.  Douglas. 

George  E.  Floyd Locustville Son  of  Thos.  F.  Floyd. 

S.  R.  Hankins Surry Son  of  John  II.  Haukins. 

W.  A.  Hankins "      "  " 

J.  S.  Morris Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  Win.  S.  Morris. 

R.  P.  W.Morris "  

T.Ellis  Morrison Son  of  R.  J.  Morn-ou. 

B.  D.  Peachy ''  Son  of  William  S.  Peachy. 

T.  G.  Pi-achy 

Charles  D.  Smith "  Son  of  Isaac  Smith. 

John  B.  Spencer James  City Son  of  William  L.  Spencer. 

W.  L.  Spencer,  Jr "        


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  157 


1867-68. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

John  T.  Kothrock,  A.  B.... Tennessee. 

F.  S.  Taylor,  A.  B Norfolk Son  of  Tazewell  Taylor. 

T.  A.  T.  Joynes,  B.  P Accomac Son  of  T.  A.  T.  Joynes. 

William  D.  Peachy,  B.  P.. William sburg Son  of  Wm.  S.  Peachy. 

Chris.  Tompkins,  B.  P Kichmond Son  of  Col.  C.  Q.  Tompkins. 

fH.  T.  Armistead Williamsburg Son  of  E.  H.  Armistead. 

fThos.  P.  Barham " 

fJohn  H.  Bowers " 

fArcher  Brooks,  Jr "  Son  of  A.  Brooks. 

fW.  J.  Barlow "  Son  of  Ho.  J.  Barlow. 

FrankCamm "  Son  of  Dr.  Ed.  Camm. 

J.  G.  Camm "          "  " 

E.  P.  Cole "          Son  of  E.  F.  Cole. 

E.  E.  Cole "          "  " 

W.  C.  Constable "          Mrs.  J.  S.  Curtis,  Guardian. 

fA.  G.  Cowles James  City Son  of  D.  S.  Cowles. 

J.  S.  Charles,  Jr Williamsburg Son  of  J.  S.  Charles. 

J.  E.  Darden "  Son  of  W.  W.  Darden. 

fW.  T.Darden1 "          "  " 

fL.  H.  Davis "  Son  of  J.  A.  Davis. 

Z.  G.  Durfey "  .Son  of  E.  G.  Durfey. 

fW.  H.  T.  Hancock "          Son  of  W.  Hancock. 

Thos.  Harrell "  Son  of  M.  E.  Harrell. 

A.  W.  Johnson Sussex Son  of  T.  L.  Johnson. 

fA.  Carter  Jones Williamsburg* Son  of  H.  T.  Jones. 

fFrank  P.  Lipscomb James  City .Son  of  S.  Lipscomb. 

E.  P.  Mercer Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Mercer. 

fB.  B.  Morecock "  W.  H.  E.  Morecock,  Guardian. 

Chas.  Morris "          Son  of  Dr.  W.  S.  Morris. 

tA.  A.  Moss "          Son  of  T.  A.  Moss. 

fW.  T.Moss "  

fB.  B.  Munford "  Son  of  Col.  J.  D.  Munford. 

JohnMunford '"  .......         "  "  " 

fW.  E.Mullen 

fE.  D.  Murdaugh Anne  Arundel, Md. Son  of  Eev.  E.  C.  Murdaiigh. 

|P.  E.  Powell Williamsburg Son  of  Peter  T.  Powell. 

A.  E.  Smith "  Son  of  S.  Smith. 

Geo.  T.  Smith "          Son  of  Isaac  Smith. 

|J.  C.  Slater "  Son  of  Parke  Slater. 

H.  M.  Sweeney Petersburg Son  of  M.  T.  Sweeney. 

|Eo.  P.  Taylor Williamsburg Son  of  E.  P.Taylor. 

W.  F.  Tompkins Eichmond Son  of  Col.  C.  Q.  Tompkins. 

jThomas  M.  Ware Williamsburg Jas.  M.  Mahone,  Guardian. 

John  B.  Waller "  Son  of  Charles  C.  P.  Waller. 

fThomas  Walthall "          Son  of  Jos.  M.  WalthaU. 


158  CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI. 


1869-70. 

NAMES.  BESIDENCES.  BEMABKS. 

fJamesT.  Blair York Son  of  Edward  F.  Blair. 

fJohh  H.  Bowers Williamsburg. 

P.  M.  Boyden Cobham Son  of  E.  Boyden. 

fThos.  S.  Brown Williamsburg Son  of  Dixion  Brown. 

Frank  Camm "          Son  of  Dr.  Ed.  Camm. 

J.  G.  Camm "          "  " 

fJohnCamm "  "  " 

JBenj.  P.  Catlett Gloucester Son  of  J.  W.  C.  Catlett. 

JohnS.  Charles,  Jr Williamsburg Son  of  J.  S.  Charles. 

fHenry  C.  Coke Norfolk Son  of  W.  W.  Coke. 

E.  P.  Cole WiUiamsbnrg Son  of  R.  F.  Cole. 

H.  M.  Cosnahan "  H.  M.  Waller,  Guardian. 

fThos.  F.  Curtis " 

fL.  H.Davis "  Son  of  Joshua  Davis. 

fLogan  D.  Davis Gloucester Son  of  William  K.  Davis. 

James  M.  Douglas Williamsburg Son  of  Wm.  R.  C.  Douglas. 

fRobt.  B.  Douglas "  "  " 

Z.  G.  Durfey "          Son  of  R.  G.  Durfey. 

R.  S.  Engle : New  York Son  of  Samuel  Engle. 

Leroy  A.  Farinholt Gloucester  C.  H. 

fLewis  Garrison Williamsburg. 

Samuel  C.  Goggin Bedford Son  of  Wm.  L.  Goggin. 

Robt.  Wash.  Goode St.  Louis,  Mo Son  of  G.  W.  Goode. 

R.  S.  Hall Scotl'd Neck,  N.C. Son  of  A.  S.Hall. 

fWm.  H.  T.  Hancock,  Jr... Williamsburg Son  of  Wm.  H.  T.  Hancock. 

Geo.  A.Hankins James  City Son  of  George  Hankins. 

Reynolds  Hankins "        " 

fG.  W.  Harrison Goochland Son  of  Col.  R.Harrison. 

fRandolph  Harrison "         

Wm.  E.  Harwood Petersburg. 

Z.  Hofheimer Norfolk Son  of  I.  Hofheimer. 

fCarter  Jones Williamsburg Son  of  H.  T.  Jones. 

Robt.  S.Jones Warrenton,  N.  C..Son  of  A.  S.  Jones. 

McLeodKasey Liberty Son  of  Col.  John  G.  Kasey. 

|Wm.  B.  Lamb Williamsburg Son  of  J.  Lamb. 

R.  P.  Mercer "  Son  of  Dr.  John  C.  Mercer. 

John  S.  Morris "  Son  of  Dr.  Wm.  S.  Morris. 

|Wm.  T.  Moss "          Son  of  Thomas  A.  Moss. 

JRobt.  S.  Morecock Wm.  H.  E.  Morecock,  Guardian. 

fBeverley  B.  Munford Son  of  Col.  J.  D.  Munford. 

Edmund  Murdaugh Anne  Arimdel,Md. Son  of  Rev.  E.  C.  Murdaugh. 

|B.  D.  Peachy Williamsburg Son  of  Wm.  S.  Peachy. 

tThos.  G.  Peachy "  "  " 

fP.  E.  Powell Son  of  P.  T.  Powell. 

fJohn  Ross Alex.  Maclean,  Guardian. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  159 

NAMES.  KESIDENCEB.  REMABKS. 

R.  B.  Scott Princess  Anne Son  of  Wm.  C.  Scott. 

fThos.  W.  Sharp Williamsburg Son  of  C.  A.  Sharp. 

A.  L.  Smith Scotl'd  Neck,  N.C. Son  of  Wm.  R.  Smith. 

Geo.  T.  Smith Williamsburg Son  of  Isaac  Smith. 

jHenry  Smith Son  of  Sydney  Smith. 

fHenry  D.  Spear James  City Son  of  John  Spear. 

fJohn  B.  Spencer James  City Son  of  W.  L.  Spencer. 

fRobt.  P.  Taylor Williamsburg Son  of  R.  P.  Taylor. 

J.  W.  Turner Goochland Son  of  George  W.  Turner. 

John  B.  Waller Williamsburg Son  of  C.  C.  P.  Waller. 

C.  W.  Wharton Liberty Son  of  J.  A.  Wharton. 

John  T.  Wilkins Northampton Son  of  Dr.  J.  T.  Wilkins. 

fC.  B.  Wilmer Williamsburg Son  of  Rev.  G.  T.  Wilmer,  D.  D. 

JG.  T.  Wilmer "  "  •* 

E.  C.  Wynne James  City H.  L.  Taylor,  Guardian. 

fRobt.  J.  Wynne " 


1870-71. 

E.  L.  Adair Accomac Son  of  John  W.  Adah*. 

fC.  P.  Armistead Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  R.  H.  Armistead. 

fH.  T.  Armistead "  "  " 

tJohn  H.  Bowers "  Son  of  James  M.  Bowers. 

fj.  J.  Bowie Baltimore. 

P.  M.  Boyden Albemarle Son  of  Rev.  E.  Boyden. 

fA.  Brooks,  Jr Williamsburg Son  of  A.  Brooks. 

fT.  S.  Brown "  Son  of  Dixon  Brown. 

fJohn  Oamm "  Son  of  Dr.  E.  Camm. 

J.  G.  Camm "  "  " 

John  S.  Charles,  Jr "  Son  of  John  S.  Charles. 

fE.  H.Clowes "  Son  of  John  Clowes. 

E.  P.  Cole "  Son  of  R.  F.  Cole. 

fH.  D.  Cole "  "  " 

W.  C.  Constable " 

H.  M.  Cosnahan "  Dr.  R.  P.  Waller,  Guardian. 

A.  S.  Cowles James  City Son  of  D.  S.  Cowles. 

H.  B.  Cowles "       "  " 

fT.  F.  Curtis Williamsburg. 

tL.  H.Davis "  Son  of  J.  A.  Davis. 

fR.  B.  Douglas "  Son  of  W.  R.  C.  Douglas. 

tL.  E.  Garrison " 

R.  W.  Goode Missouri Son  of  G.  W.  Goode. 

T.  H.  Hammond Sussex. 

fW.  H.  T.  Hancock Williamsburg Son  of  W.  H.  T.  Hancock. 

George  A.  Hankins James  City Son  of  George  Hankins. 

fW.  Hankins "         "  " 

John  Hare North  Carolina Son  of  John  B.  Hare. 


160  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  KEMAKKS. 

fG.  W.  Harrison Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  R.  Harrison. 

fR.  Harrison "  "  " 

W.  E.  Harwood Petersburg. 

J.  de  Bree  Higgins Norfolk. 

Z.  Hofheimer "        Son  of  Isaac  Hofheimer. 

R.  M.  Hughes Abingdon Son  of  Col.  R.  W.  Hughes. 

fA.  C.  Jones Williamsburg Son  of  H.  T.  Jones. 

R.  S.  Jones North  Carolina Son  of  A.  S.  Jones. 

McL.  Kasey Liberty,  Va Son  of  Col.  John  G.  Kasey. 

|F.  M.  Lamb Williamsburg Son  of  J.  Lamb. 

|W.  B.  Lamb "  "  " 

J.  P.  Little Son  of  Dr.  J.  P.  Little. 

Isaac  N.  Martin James  City Son  of  John  T.  Martin. 

W.  Martin "        Son  of  Dr.  W.  Martin. 

R.  P.  Mercer WUlianisburg Son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Mercer. 

fR.  S.  Morecock "  W.  H.  E.  Morecock,  Guardian. 

J.  S.  Morris "  Son  of  Dr.  Wm.  S.  Morris. 

fW.  T.  Moss "  Son  of  T.  A.  Moss. 

|B.  B.  Munford "  Son  of  Col.  John  D.  Munford. 

|A.  C.  Peachy Son  of  William  S.  Peachy. 

|B.  D.  Peachy 

fT.  G.  Peachy " 

|T.  F.  Piggott James  City Son  of  B.  F.  Piggott. 

P.  E.  Powell WUlianisburg Son  of  P.  T.  Powell. 

fJohn  Ross Son  of  John  Ross. 

•fT.  W.  Sharp Prince  George Son  of  Clem.  A.  Sharp. 

G.  T.  Smith Williamsburg Son  of  Isaac  Smith. 

fHenrySmith Son  of  Sydney  Smith. 

fH.  D.  Spear James  City Son  of  J.  J.  Spear. 

W.  Stoddert Charles  Co.,  Md. 

|R.  P.  Taylor Williamsburg. 

fW.  S.  Tilford "  Son  of  J.  C.  Tilford. 

B.  T.  Turner Goochland Son  of  George  W.  Turner. 

G.  C.  Turner "          " 

M.T.Turner "          " 

E.D.Tuttle Williamsburg Son  of  Friend  Tuttle. 

Robert  F.  Wall Williamsburg Son  of  M.  Wall. 

Thomas  H.  Wall 

fC.  C.  P.  Waller Son  of  C.  C.  P.  Waller. 

John   B.  Waller 

fThomas  Ware James  Mahonr,  Guardian. 

C.  W.  Wharton Liberty Son  of  Rev.  J.  A.  Wliarton. 

John  T.  Wilkins Northampton Son  of  Dr.  .1.  T.  WilUins. 

fC.B.  \Vilm«T Willicimsburg Son  of  Rev.  <J.  T.  Wilmrr.  I  >.  I  >. 

|G.  T.  Wilnu-r 

W.  S.  Wilson Norfolk Son  of  Oor»v  K.  Wilson. 


CATALOGUE  OF  ALUMNI.  161 


1871-72. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

J.  W.  Turner,  A.  M Goochland Son  of  G.  W.  Turner. 

R.  W.  Goode,  A.  B Missouri........  Son  of  G.  W.  Goode. 

P.  M.  Boyden,  B.  P Albemarle Son  of  Rev.  E.  Boyden. 

R.  S.  Jones,  B.  P North  Carolina Son  of  A.  S.  Jones. 

C.  W.  Wharton,  B.  P Liberty Son  of  Rev.  J.  A.  Wharton. 

James  M.  Ambler Fauquier Son  of  John  Ambler. 

fC.  P.  Armistead Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  R.  H.  Arniistead. 

W.  H.  T.  Barren Richmond  county-Son  of  Com.  Samuel  Barron. 

H.  W.  Booker... Hampton Son  of  George  Booker. 

|A.  Brooks Williamsburg Son  of  A.  Brooks. 

W.  N.  Brown Westmoreland. 

F.  Camm Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  E.  Camm. 

fJohn  Camin "  "  " 

J.  G.  Camm "  "  " 

H.  D.  Cole "  Son  of  R.  F.  Cole. 

fJ.  R.  Coupland "  Son  of  J.  R.  Coupland. 

H.  B.  Cowles ......James  City Son  of  D.  S.  Cowles. 

fL.  Davis Williamsburg Son  of  J.  A.  Davis. 

J.  L.  Duncan Butler,  Md. 

W.  B.  Finney Accomac Son  of  A.  G.  Finney. 

|J.  H.  Flippen Pittsylvania Son  of  C.  W.  Flippen. 

T.  S.  Foster Norfolk Son  of  W.  C.  Foster. 

fJ.  P.  Gilmer Pittsylvania Son  of  John  Gilmer. 

John  C.  Gresham Lancaster  C.  H....Son  of  Samuel  Gresham. 

fW.  H.  T.  Hancock Williamsburg Son  of  W.  H.  T.  Hancock. 

W.  N.  Hankins, James  City Son  of  George  Han  kins. 

John  Hare North  Carolina Son  of  J.  B.  Hare. 

fG.  W.  Harrison Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  R.  Harrison. 

fR.  Harrison t "  "  " 

fF.  Hughes Abingdon Son  of  Col.  R.  W.  Hughes. 

R.M.Hughes "         "  " 

|A.  C.  Jones Williamsburg Son  of  H.  T.Jones. 

fG.  S.  King Hampton Son  of  Dr.  J.  R.  King. 

|F.  M.  Lamb Williamsburg Son  of  J.  Lamb. 

W.  B.  Lamb "  "        " 

J.  P.  Little Son  of  Dr.  J.  P.  Little. 

fC.  L.  Mahone u  Son  of  J.  H.  Mahone. 

S.  B.  Mallory Hampton Son  of  Col.  C.  K.  Mallory. 

Isaac  N.  Martin James  City Son  of  John  T.  Martin. 

James  M.  Matthews Tappahannock Son  of  James  M.  Matthews. 

R.  P.  Mercer Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  John  C.  Mercer. 

W.  F.  Mitchell Towsontown,  Md. 

J.  D.  Montague Middlesex Son  of  Hon.  R.  L.  Montague. 

|R.  S.  Morecock Williamsburg W.  H.  E.  Morecock,  Guardian. 

B.  B.  Munford "  Son  of  Col.  John  D.  Munford. 

14 


162  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

rt.  W.  Nicolson Middlesex Son  of  G.  L.  Nicolson. 

W.  H.  N.  P.  Parker Northampton Son  of  Wm.  H.  Parker. 

fA.  C.  Peachy Williamsburg Son  of  Wm.  S.  Peachy. 

fB.  D.  Peachy "  " 

T.  G.  Peachy 

fJohn  H.  Pigg Pittsylvania Son  of  H.  Pigg. 

John  William  Kice .  Northumberland..  J3otr  of  John  Kice. 

fJohn  Ross York  county Son  of  John  Ross. 

H.  L.  Schrnelz Hampton Son  of  F.  A.  Schmelz. 

A.  E.  Smith Williamsburg Son  of  S.  Smith. 

George  T.  Smith "  Son  of  Isaac  Smith. 

Henry  Smith "  Son  of  S.  Smith. 

|R.  F.  Smith York>. Son  of  B.  F.  Smith. 

f  Albert  Scuthall Williamsburg Son  of  Tyler  Southall. 

|E.  D.  Spencer James  City Son  of  W.  L.  Spencer. 

S.  L.  Straughan,  Jr Northumberland... Son  of  S.  L.  Straughan. 

|R.  P.  Taylor Williamsburg Son  of  R.  P.  Taylor. 

B.  T.  Turner Goochland Son  of  G.  W.  Turner. 

M.T.Turner "  

E.  D.  Tuttle Williamsburg Son  of  F.  Tuttle. 

R.F.  Wall "  Son  of  M.  Wall. 

T.  H.  Wall "  "        u 

fC.  C.  P.  Waller "  Son  of  C.  C.  P.  Waller. 

fT.  M.  Ware "  J.  M.  Mahone,  Guardian. 

T.  N.  Williams Pittsylvania. 

C.  B.  Wilmer Williamsburg Son  of  Rev.G.T.  Winner,  D.D. 

fG.  T.  Wilmer "  

W.  S.  Wilson Norfolk Son  of  George  R.  Wilson. 

|C.  D.  Witherspoon Petersburg. 

E.  C.  Wynne James  City. 

fJohn  A.  Young Warwick Son  of  W.  G.  Young. 

1872-73. 

R.  M.  Hughes,  A.  B Abingdon Son  of  Col.  R.  W.  Hughes. 

C.  P.  Armistead Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  R.  II.  Annistead. 

fN.  Carey  Brand Alabama Son  of  James  AV.  Brand. 

A.  Brooks,  Jr Willhiuisbur# Son  of  A.  Brooks,  Sr. 

C.  J.  Brown Orange  county. 

F.  Camui \Villiam.slniri; Son  of  Dr.  Ed.  Camiii. 

jJohii  Cainni "  "  " 

fE.  H.  Clowes Son  of  John  Clowes. 

II.  I).  Cole Son  of  R.  F.  Cole. 

W.O.  Constable 

}.].  R.  Coupland,  .Jr "  Son  of  John  R.  Coupland. 

K.  15.  Dau^-licrty 

|L.  Davis "  Son  of  J.  A.  Davi.-. 

tBascum  Dey "  Son  of  Rev.  J.  B.  Dey. 


CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


163 


KKMARKS. 


f  George  Dilworth James  City. 

J.  L.  Duncan Maryland 

Thomas  J.  Edwards Prince  George. 

John  W.  Embrey Falmouth Son  of 

fj.  H.  Flippen Pittsylvania Son  of 

J.  Waller  Ford Stafford Son  of 

K.  D.  Gilliam Pr.  George  C.  H...Son  of 

tW.  H.  T.  Hancock Williamsburg Son  of 


Son  of  William  Duncan. 


Wesley  Embrey. 

C.  W.  Flippen. 

N.  W.  Ford. 

Robert  Gilliam. 

W.  H.  T.  Hancock. 

G.  W.  Harrison Son  of  Col.  K.  Harrison. 

R.  Harrrison "  " 

fJohn  H.  Johnson 

A.  C.  Jones "      Son  of  H.  T.  Jones. 

|G.  S.  King Hampton ^on  of  Dr.  John  K.  King. 

W.  B.  Lamb Williamsburg Son  of  J.  Lamb. 

J.  P.  Little Son  of  Dr.  J.  P.  Little. 

R.  C.  Maclean Alabama. 

fC.  H.  Mahone Williamsburg. 

Joseph  Martin Henry Son  of  William  Martin. 

W.  F.  Mitchell Towsontown,  Md..Son  of  J.  B.  Mitchell. 

fRobert  S.  Morecock Williamsburg. 

B.  B.  Munford "  Son  of  Col.  J.  D.  Munford. 

W.  H.  N.  P.  Parker Northampton Son  of  William  H.  Parker. 

fA.  C.  Peachy Williamsburg Son  of  William  S.  Peachy. 

B.  D.  Peachy "  "  " 

T.  G.  Peachy "  " 

fJohn  Piggott James  City. 

tThomas  F.  Piggott 

fF.  U.  Powell Williamsburg Son  of  P.  T.  Powell. 

|W.  O.  Roper "  Son  of  R.  R.  Roper. 

|W.  Schenck York. 

G.  T.  Smith Williamsburg Son  of  Isaac  Smith. 

H.  Smith "  Son  of  Sydney  Smith. 

|R.  F.  Smith " 

t Albert  M.  Southall "  Son  of  Tyler  Southall. 

H.  D.  Spear .-. James  City Son  of  John  Spear. 

E.  D.  Spencer "          Son  of  W.  L.  Spencer. 

B.  Jones  H.  Sprnill North  Carolina Son  of  Col.  S.  B.  Spruill. 

James  E.  Stewart New  Kent Son  of  Richard  A.  Stewart. 

James  L.  Taliaferro Gloucester Son  of  Gen.  Wm.  B.  Taliaferro. 

|R.  P.  Taylor Williamsburg Son  of  Robert  P.  Taylor. 

B.  T.  Turner Goochland Son  of  G.  W.  Turner. 

Thomas  H.  Wall Williamsburg Son  of  M.  Wall. 

fThomas  Ware " 

fThomas  Williams James  City Son  of  George  Williams. 

|W.  C.  Williams Son  of  W.  Williams. 

C.  B.  Wilmer Williamsburg Son  of  Rev.  G.T.  Wilmer,D.  D 

George  T.  Wilmer,  Jr 

John  A.  Young Warwick Son  of  W.  G.  Young. 


164  CATALOGUE   OF   ALUMNI. 


1873-74. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

J.  P.  Little,  A.  B Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  J.  P.  Little. 

J.  L.  Taliaferro,  A.B Gloucester Son  of  Gen'l  W.  B.  Taliaferro. 

W.  H.  N.  P.  Parker,  B.  P..Northampton Son  of  William  H.  Parker. 

C.  P.  Armistead Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  K.  H.  Armistead. 

|N.  Carey  Brand Alabama Son  of  James  W.  Brand. 

A.  Brooks,  Jr Williamsburg Son  of  A.  Brooks. 

James  Brooks Woodbmy,  Md Son  of  William  Brooks. 

John  Oamm Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  E.  Camm. 

J.  G.  Camm "  "  " 

H.  D.  Cole «l>          Son  of  R.  F.  Cole. 

W.  C.  Constable " 

fH.  L.  Darlington York. 

fBascum  Dey Williamsburg Son  of  Rev.  J.  B.  Dey. 

fR.  B.  Daugherty " 

T.  J.  Edwards Prince  George. 

A.  W.  Ensor Baltimore  Co.,  Md.Son  of  William  O.  Ensor. 

R.  D.  Gilliam Pr.  George  C.  H...8on  of  Robert  Gilliam,  Sr. 

fW.  H.  T.  Hancock Richmond Son  of  W.  H.  T.  Hancock. 

G.  W.  Harrison Williamsburg Son  of  Col.  R.  Harrison. 

R.Harrison 

A.  C.  Jones Williamsburg Son  of  H.  T.  Jones. 

fG.  S.  King Hampton Son  of  Dr.  John  R.  King. 

Charles  Lamb Norfolk Son  of  W.  W.  Lamb. 

|F.  M.  Lamb Williamsburg Son  of  J.  Lamb. 

W.  B.  Lamb "  " 

R.  C.  Maclean .Mobile,  Ala Son  of  Andrew  Maclean. 

J.  Martin Henry  county Son  of  William  Martin. 

fG.  W.  Mercer Williamsburg Son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Mercer. 

JR.  S.  Morecock 

jj.  C.  Motley Son  of  John  Motley. 

B.  B.  Munford Botetourt  Co Son  of  Col.  John  D.  Miinford. 

|W.  R.  Munford "  " 

J.  A.  Nicol Prince  William  ....Son  of  A.  M«>1. 

fA.  C.  Peachy Williams! nirg Son  of  William  S.  Peachy. 

B.  D.  Peachy "  " 

T.  G.  Peachy 

fF.  Upshur  Powell Williamsbnrg Son  of  1*.  T.  IWHI. 

Eston  Randolph Clarke  county Son  of  Bev.  Randolph. 

fW.  O.  Roper Williamsbury; Son  of  \i.  II.  llop.-r. 

C.  S.  Scott Powluitun  Son  of  K.  Scott. 

I*.  W.  Smith.  .Fr (Jloiirrstrr  C.  II. ...Son  of   I'.  W.  Sinilh. 

jSydm-y  Smith,  ,lr Williamsbnrg Son  of  Sydney  Smith,  Sr. 

A.  M.  Southall  "  Son  of  Tyl.-r  Soinhall. 

E.  D.  SjMMM-cr James  City Son  of  W.  I,.  Spcin-.-r. 

G.  I).  Taylor Ammiac Son  of  T.  II.  Taylor. 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  165 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  REMARKS. 

fR.  P.  Taylor Williamsburg Son  of  R.  P.  Taylor. 

J.  B.  T.  Thornton Prince  William Son  of  W.  W.  Thornton. 

Thomas  H.  Wall Williamsburg Son  of  M.  Wall. 

J.  A.  Watts Roanoke Son  of  Col.  William  Watts. 

fW.  C.  Williams James  City Son  of  W.  Williams. 

C.  B.  Wilmer Williamsburg Son  of  Rev.  G.  T.  Wilmer,  D.  D. 

G.T.  Wilmer "  "  " 

|W.  L.  Wilson Petersburg Son  of  Dr.  Samuel  Wilson. 

E.  C.  Wynne James  City Son  of  Thomas  Wynne. 


DEGREES 

COURSE,"  GIVEN  SINCE  1858. 


NAMES. 

Robert  J.  Graves  

RESIDENCES. 

U.  T.  Seminary  

DEGREE. 

A.  M  

DATE. 

1859 

Reginald  M.  Murphy 

Maryland  

A.  M  

u 

James  H.  Barnes  

James  City  county 

A.  M  

U 

William  C.  Parham.. 

Arkansas  

A.  M  

1866 

A.  S.  Fiircron  

Chesterfield  

A.  M  

1868 

Edmund  R.  Bagwell 

Accomac  

A.  M  

n 

Thomas  J.  Stubbs  ... 

Gloucester  

A.  M  

1869 

Samuel  W.  Murphy- 

Maryland  

A.  M  

u 

Frank  H.  Alfriend... 

Richmond  

A.  M  

u 

William  I.  Clopton  .. 

u 

A.  M  

1870 

J.  F.  Hubbard  

Yorktown  

A.  M  

1872 

NAMES 

OF  THOSE  ON  WHOM  HONORARY  DEGREES  HAVE  BEEN  CONFERRED. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  DEGREE.  DATE. 

Benjamin  Franklin A.  M 1755 

Chevalier  de  Chastellux.... General  in  French  army LL.  D 1782 

John  F.  Coste First  Physician      "         M.  D " 

Thomas  Jefferson LL.  D " 

Rt.  Rev.  James  Madison... Williamsburg D.  D 1790 

George  Wythe,  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Chancery LL.  D " 

St.  George  Tucker State  Judge LL.  D " 

Robert  Andrews Williamsburg A.  M " 

Charles  BeUini "  A.  M " 

Granville  Sharp London LL.  D 1791 

Humphrey  Harwood Williamsburg A.  B " 

Rev.  John  Bracken "  D.  D 1793 

Rev.  John  Cameron Bristol  Parish D.  D " 

Rev.  Jas.  Maury  Fontaine. Gloucester,., ,....,., D.  D " 


166  CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI. 

NAMES.  HE8IDENCES.  DEGEEE.  DATE. 

Kev.  Sam'l  S.  McCrosky... Gloucester D.  D 1793 

Rev.  Thomas  Andrews Williainsburg D.  D u 

Rev.  James  Craig Lunenburg D.  D 1794 

Rev.  John  Buchanan Henrico D.  D " 

Marquis  de  La  Fayette LL.  D 1824 

Rev.  William  Meade Frederick D.  D 1827 

Rev.  Robert  B.  Semple Fredericksburg D.  D " 

Henry  St.  George  Tucker.  .Winchester LL.  D 1837 

Benjamin  Watkins  Leigh.. Richmond LL.  D " 

Wm.H.  Frescott,  historian  .Boston LL.  D 1841 

Right  Rev.  John  Payne Missionary  Bishop  to  Africa. D.  D 1851 

Rev.  M.  Wing Gambler  College,  Ohio D.  D " 

Alexander Shiras Rappahann^ck  Academy.... A.  M " 

Hubert  P.  Lefevre Williamsburg  Female  Acad.A.  M " 

George  P.  Scarburgh State  Judge LL.  D 1852 

William  H.  Gilham Virginia  Military  Institute... A.  M " 

Charles  S.  Venable Prof .  at  Hampden  Syd.CoL.A.  M " 

Richard  Ford Williamsburg  Male  Acad A.  M. " 

John  Blair  Dabney Campbell  county LL.  D 1853 

Dr.  G.  L.Upshur Norfolk A.  M " 

Rev.  Charles  Minnegerode.      " D.  D 1854 

Rev.  Geo.  D.  Armstrong...      " D.  D. 

Hon.  Litt.  W.  Tazewell....      "      LL.  D " 

Hon.  Jno.  Tyler,  ex-Pres.  U.  S LL.  D " 

John  Tyler,  Jr A.  M. 

C.  White Rumford  Academy A.  M " 

John  B.  Strange Norfolk  Academy A.  M " 

John  B.  Gary Hampton  Academy A.  M " 

Robert  Gatewood Norfolk A.  M 1855 

Hugh  B.  Grigsby "      LL.  D " 

Right  Rev.  John  Johns Bishop  of  Virginia LL.  D " 

C.  J.  D.  Pryor Williamsburg A.  M 185(5 

William  Green Richmond LL.  D " 

Rev.  E.  A.  Dalrymple Pres.  University  of  Maryl'd.S.  T.  D is;,; 

Rev. George  Woodbridge... Richmond I).  I) '' 

Rev.  N.  A.  Okeson Norfolk I).  D ls:,s 

D.  Lee  Powell Richmond A.  M " 

IlnbiM-t  .).  Morrison "         A.  M '.' 

Rev.  Cornelius  Walker Winclicslcr 1).  D Inly  -llli.  1S.V.) 

Rev.  J.  -f.  MrKlhciiiiy Kcnyon  College I).  I) 

Rev.  John   A.  lim^ldns < 'harlot  trsvillr D.   l> 

Rev.  J.  C.  McCain- Ki<-liiiion<l D.  I) 

Ki-v.  ITi'-lianl  II.  WiliinM-...IJisli«>]>  of  Ahibamu I).    D 

-,i:.s  Toll. MI,  D.I) rivs'i  of  Iowa  University  ...LL,  i> -       ISI;M 

II,-v.  Georg^  T.  Wilin.T NVilliam-l.iii--  D.   D  .... 

Willhm  Ho.l-"   Norlli  C;iro!iii;l I  >.    D 

M.  li.  DroNMic I'rincc   Ivlw.-inl \.  .M 

Caleb  llalloudl Mrxnmlria \.  M 


CATALOGUE   OF  ALUMNI.  167 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  DEGREE.  DATE. 

Rev.  Chan'g  M.  Williams.. Bishop  of  China  and  Japan.D.  D "        1866 

James  Barron  Hope Norfolk A.  M " 

Kev.EdmundC.Mim3augh.Anne  Arundel  co.,  Md D.  D "       1868 

Rev.  George  H.  Norton.... Alexandria D.  D " 

Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston.. Virginia LL.  D " 

William  G.'McCabe Petersburg A.  M 

Rev.  Francis  Vinton, 

S.  T.  D... New  York  city C.L.D...22d  Feb.,  1869 

Rev.  ChristopherB.  Wyatt.Saii  Francisco,  Cal D.  D " 

Rev.  M.  Mahan,  D.  D Baltimore LL.  D....22d  Feb.,  1869 

Rev.  A.  Paul  Repiton North  Carolina D.  D 

Rev.  J.  M.  Banister Alabama D.  D 4th  July,    " 

Rev.  J.  H.  D.  Wingfield  ...Petersburg  D.  D 

Rev.  O.  S.  Barten Norfolk D.  D "        " 

Prof.  Basil  L.  Gildersleeve.University  of  Virginia LL.  D....          "        " 

Prof .Wm.Dwight  Whitney. Yale  College LL.  D....          "        " 

Rev. Henry  N. Pierce,D.D.Bishop  of  Arkansas LL.  D.... 

Prof.  Frank  Preston Lexington A.  M 

Dr.  Richard  A.  Wise Richmond A.  M "        u 

Rev.  Churchill  J.  Gibson... Petersburg D.  D 22d  Feb.,  1870 

Rev.  R.  D.  Nevius Mobile,  Ala D.  D "        " 

Rev.  J.  H.  Wingfield Portsmouth D.  D "        " 

Rev.  Henry  Wall Richmond D.  D "        " 

Rev.  Samuel  Benedict Savannah,  Ga D.  D 22d  Feb.,  1870 

Rev.  John  F.  Hoff Baltimore,  Md D.  D "        " 

Rev.  C.  H.  Shield Washington,  D.  C D.  D "        " 

Hon.  James  Lyons Richmond LL.  D....          "        " 

General  R.  E.  Colston Cape  Fear  Mil.  Acad.,N.  C.A.  M 

Rev.  W.  C.  Williams Rome,  Ga D.  D "        " 

Hon.  W.  H.  Macfarland...  .Richmond LL.  D....          "        " 

Henry  A.  Strode Petersburg .A.  M "        " 

Rev.  Horace  Stringfellow  .Montgomery,  Ala D.  D "      1871 

Rev.  W.  C.  Meredith Winchester D.  D "        " 

Rev.  Wm.  Treble  Saunders. Key  West,  Fla D.  D 4th  July,  1871 

Rev.  Q.  Q.  Scott Pensacola,  Fla D.  D "        " 

Rev.  John  A.  Harrison Tennessee D.  D 22d  Feb.,  1872 

Rev.  Robert  J.  Graves Sharon,  Pa D.  D "        " 

Rev.  C.  B.  Coffin New  York A.  M "        " 

Dr.  Henry  Sliield Yorktown A.  M 4th  July,  1872 

Prof.  John  R .  Tucker Washington  and  Lee  Uni . .  LL .  D . . . .          "        " 

C.  B.  Duffield Norfolk LL.  D. ..          "        <• 

Prof.  John  W.  Mallett University  of  Virginia LL.  D. ..          "        " 

Rev.  William  Fulton Salisbury,  Md D.  D " 

Rev.  J.  R.  Hubard Washington,  D.  C D.  D 

Dr.  John  Clopton Ass't  Sup't  E.  L.  Asylum..A.  M "        " 

Hon.  Legrand  W.  Perce... Mississippi LL.  D....22d  Feb.,  1873 

Hon.  George  F.  Hoar Massachusetts LL.  D.... 

Robert  Potts Trinity  College,  England.. .LL.  D.... 


168  CATALOGUE   OF   ALtTMNI. 

NAMES.  RESIDENCES.  DEGREE.  DATE. 

Kev.  Wm.  G.  Farrington...New  Jersey D.  D 4th  July,  1873 

General  F.  H.  Smith Virginia  Military  Institute..LL.  D....        " 

Prof.  C.  S.  Venable University  of  Virginia LL.  D....          "        " 

Rt.  Rev.  Wm.  Pinkney Maryland LL.  D....          "        " 

Rt.  Rev.  Henry  C.  Lay Maryland S.  T.  D,          "        " 

Rev.  Robert  Nelson Missionary  to  China D.  D ". 

Rt.  Rev.  F.  McN.  Whittle. Virginia LL.  D.... 

Rev.  R.  C.  Stocking Chicago D.  D "        " 

Rev.  James  H.  Ticknor Opelika,  Ala D.  D 

Rev.  John  Muehleisen 

Arnold,  P.  D.London,  England D.  D 22d  Feb.,  1874 

Rev.  J.  M.  T.  Otts Wilmington,  Del D.  D 


ORGANIZATION 

OF   THE 

COLLEGE  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MARY, 

July  4th,  1874. 


VISITORS  AND  GOVERNORS. 

HON.  HUGH  BLAIK  GRIGSBY,  LL.  D.,  CHANCELLOR. 
HON.  JAMES  LYONS,  LL.  D.,  RECTOR. 

REV.  GEORGE  WOODBRIDGE,  D.  D.  REV.  CHARLES  MINNEGERODE,  D.  D 

TAZEWELL  TAYLOR.  HON.  ROBT.  L.  MONTAGUE. 

GEN'L  H.  A.  WISE.  GEN'L  WM.  B.  TALIAFERRO. 

JUDGE  W.  W.  CRUMP.  JUDGE  WARNER  T.  JONES. 

MAJ.  C.  S.  STRINGFELLOW.  REV.  J.  H.  D.  WINGFIELD,  D.  D. 

WM.  S.  PEACHY.  DR.  A.  N.  WELLFORD. 

P.  M.  THOMPSON.  COL.  WM.  LAMB. 
HON.  JOHN  GOODE,  JR. 


Clerk: 
WM.  H.  E.  MORECOCK. 

Bursar : 
TAZEWELL  TAYLOR. 


FACULTY.* 
BENJ.  S.  EWELL,  LL.  D.,  PRESIDENT. 

REV.  GEORGE  T.  WILMER,  D.  D.,  Professor  of  Moral  and  Intellectual  Phi- 
losophy and  Belles  Lettres. 

REV.  L.  B.  WHARTON,  A.  M.,  Professor  of  Latin,  French,  and  Roman  and 
French  History. 

REV.  L.  B.  WHARTON,  A.  M.,  Professor  of  Greek,  German,  and  Grecian  and 
German  History. 

BENJ.  S.  EWELL,  LL.  D.,  Professor  of  Natural  and  Experimental  Philosophy 
and  Mathematics. 

DR.  RICHARD  A,  WISE,  A.  M.,  Professor  of  Chemistry,  Geology  and  Phy- 
siology. 

CHAS.  S.  DOD,  A.  M.,  Master  of  the  Grammar  and  u  Matty  "  School. 

*  The  faculty  each  year  select  competent  students  from  the  senior  classes  to  assist  in 
teaching  in  the  junior  departments.     During  the  late  session  the  following  students  have 
acted  as  assistants :  C.  B.  Wilmer,  J.  P.  Little,  J.  L.  Taliaferro. 
15 


COURSE  OF  INSTRUCTION. 


The  Subjects  taught  in  the  College  are  Latin,  Greek,  Mathematics, 
French,  German,  Natural  Philosophy,  Mixed  Mathematics,  Chem- 
istry, Geology,  Mineralogy,  Physiology,  Moral  and  Intellectual  Phi- 
losophy, and  Belles  Lettres. 

Department  of  Latin. 
PROFESSORS  WHARTON  AND  WILMER. 

Junior  Class.  —  Caesar,  Sallust,  Cicero's  Orations;  Gildersleeve's 
Latin  Grammar;  Arnold's  Prose  Composition;  Andrew's  Lexicon. 

Intermediate  Class.  —  Virgil,  Livy,  Horace;  Gildersleeve's  Latin 
Grammar;  Arnold's  Latin  Prose  Composition  ;  Latin  Prosody  ;  Lid- 
dell's  History  of  Rome. 

Senior  Class.  —  Juvenal,  Terence,  Tacitus  ;  Harrison's,  Zumpt's  and 
Madvig's  Latin  Grammars  ;  Latin  Prosody  ;  Roman  Literature  ;  Lid- 
dell's  Rome. 

Department  of  Greek. 

PROF.  WHARTON. 

Junior  Class.  —  Xenophon's  Anabasis  and  Memorabilia;  Hadley's 
Grammar;  Oral  and  Written  Exercises  ;  Smith's  History  of  Greece; 
Liddell  and  Scott's  Lexicon. 

Intermediate  Class.  —  Homer,  Herodotus,  Demosthenes  ;  Exercises  ; 
Greek  Prosody,  (Hadley;)  Smith's  History  of  Greece. 

Senior  Class.  —  Thucydides,  Plato,  Sophocles,  Euripides  ;  Exercises  ; 
Theory  of  Forms,  (Hadley;)  Lectures  on  Literature;  Lectures  on 
the  Principles  of  Indo-European  Comparative  Gram  mar. 

Department  of  Mathematics. 

I'IJUF.    KWKLL. 


.    -Davit's"  Arithmetic,   Algebra,  Geometry  and    Plane 
Trigonomi 

Intermediate  Class.  —  Algebra,  <  Jrumrt.ry,  and  Tri^Hiinudry  com- 
pleted:   I  )a  vies   Surveying;  Church's  Analytical  (  Jrtmn.-try. 

Senior   Class.  —  Differential   and    Infc-ral    Calculus.   (Courtel 
Des.  Geometry. 


COURSE  OF   INSTRUCTION.  171 

Department  of  French.. 
PROF.  WHARTON. 

Junior  Class. — Fasquelle's  French  Course ;  Exercises ;  Lectures  on 
Grammar ;  Collot's  Dramatic  Reader;  Spiers  and  Surenne's  Lexicon. 

Senior  Class. — Noel  and  Chapsal's  Grammar ;  Exercises  in  Writing 
and  Speaking  French  ;  Moliere,  Racine,  Lamartine ;  French  History 
and  Literature. 

Department  of  German. 
PROF.  WHARTON. 

Junior  Class. — Otto's  Grammar  and  Exercises;  Adler's  Reader; 
Adler's  Lexicon. 

Senior  Class. — Schiller,  Goethe ;  Exercises  in  Writing  and  Speak- 
ing German ;  Lectures  on  German  Literature. 

Department  of  Natural  Philosophy  and  Mixed 
Mathematics. 

PROF.  EWELL. 

Junior  Class. — Popular  and  Practical  Course  of  Mechanics,  Acous- 
tics, Electricity,  Optics,  Astronomy. 

Senior  Class. — Bartlett's  Analytical  Mechanics,  Acoustics  and 
Optics. 

Department  of  Chemistry,  Geology,  Mineralogy  and 

Physiology. 

DR.  WISE,  PROFESSOR. 

Junior  and  Senior  Class. — Usual  course  of  Heat,  Light  and  Elec- 
tricity ;  Organic  and  Inorganic  Chemistry,  theoretical  and  practical, 
with  their  application  to  the  principles  of  Agriculture  and  the  Arts. 

Authors  Used. — Attfield's  and  Miller's  Chemistry ;  Dalton's  Physi- 
ology. 

Department  of  Moral  and  Intellectual  Science  and 
Belles  Lettres. 

REV.  GEORGE  T.  WILMER,  D.  D.,  PROFESSOR. 
Junior  Class — Middle  Class — Senior  Class. 

Authors  Used. — Hamilton,  Cousin,  Jouffroy;  Kame's  Elements; 
Blair's  Rhetoric. 


EXPENSES  AND  COLLEGE  FEES. 


Tuition.  $30  00 

Matriculation  Fee,    -  5  00 

Servant's  Hire  and  Contingent  Expenses,  -  5  00 

Board  at  College  Hotel,  160  00 

Use  of  Room  and  Furniture,  5  00 

Fuel,  Lights  and  Washing,  -  From  $25  to  35  00 

Board  may  be  obtained  of  families  at  advanced  rates. 
JB^  There  is  no  extra  fee  for  Modern  Languages. 

Thus  a  Student's  expenses  at  this  College  need  not  be  more  than 
$230.00,  or  if  he  enters  on  a  scholarship,  $200.00. 

There  is  connected  with  the  College  a  Preparatory  Department, 
called  the  Grammar  and  "Matty"  School,  founded  by  Mrs.  Mary 
Whaley,  of  Bruton  Parish,  Virginia,  in  1742. 

This  School,  which  opens  the  1st  of  October,  and  closes  the  20th 
of  July,  is  under  the  supervision  of  the  Faculty.  The  Scholars  are 
taught  the  usual  English  branches,  with  Latin,  Greek  and  Mathe- 
matics, and  are  prepared  for  College.  They  are  subjected  to  proper 
restraint  and  discipline.  Boys  under  twelve  not  admitted. 

All  College  charges  are  payable,  half-yearly,  in  advance. 

Those  joining  the  department  of  Natural  Philosophy  and  Chem- 
istry, shall  pay  an  additional  fee  of  five  dollars  for  the  use  of  the 
apparatus. 

Students  may  reduce  the  charges  for  Board  to  at  least  one-half  by 
renting  rooms,  providing  their  own  furniture,  and  forming  messes,  ob- 
taining supplies  from  their  homes  if  practicable.  This  plan  has 
been  found,  on  trial,  to  be  a  success,  and  to  prove  a  great  saving. 

To  give  meritorious  young  men  in  limited  circumstances  the 
means  of  obtaining  an  education,  FIFTEEN  SCHOLARSHIPS,  exempting 
those  admitted  on  them  from  the  payment  of  tuition  fees,  have  been 
founded  in  the  College. 

Applications  for  these  scholarships  must  be  made   before  the 

of  the  session, 

In  addition  to  (he  above  number  of  scholarships,  each  Pro- 
lias  t  IM-  power  to  confer  a  scholarship  on  two  students,  selected 
jinmuilly    from   tln.-ir  Classes,  as  a  reward  of  merit,  and  for  good 
standing  in  ih'-ir  clw 


DEGREES 


There  are  three  regular  Degrees,  viz :  BACHELOR  OF  PHILOSOPHY, 
•BACHELOR  OF  ARTS,  and  MASTER  OF  ARTS. 

Required  for  B.  P. — The  three  years'  Course.  Latin- and  Greek 
omitted ;  or  its  equivalent,  i.  &,-  proficiency  in  two  Departments,  and 
in  the  Junior  Classes  of  three  of  the  remaining  Departments. 

Required  for  A.  B. — The  three  years'  Course ;  or  its  equivalent, 
i.  e.,  proficiency  in  four  Departments  and  in  the  Junior  Classes  of 
the  remaining  Departments. 

Required  for  A.  M. — The  Degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  in 
addition  proficiency  in  any  two  Modern  Languages,  in  the  advanced 
Metaphysical  Course,  in  English  Literature,  in  Analytical  Geometry, 
in  Differential  and  Integral  Calculus,  and  in  Mixed  Mathematics. 

Certificates  of  Proficiency  may  be  awarded,  upon  examination  in 
any  class  or  department,  to  those  whose  preparation  before  coming 
to  College  warrants  it. 

Every  candidate  for  a  degree  shall,  at  least  thirty  days  before 
Commencement,  hand  to  the  President  an  essay  prepared  to  be 
spoken  in  public ;  from  which  the  Faculty  shall  select  a  certain 
number  to  be  spoken  on  the  day  of  Commencement.  No  speech 
not  so  selected  shall  be  delivered  on  that  day ;  nor  shall  a  diploma 
be  granted  to  any  student  who  shall  fail  to  hand  in  such  an  essay, 
and  deliver  it  publicly,  if  required  to  do  so. 

Any  student,  not  a  candidate  for  a  Degree,  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
certificate  of  his  progress  with  the  College  Seal  annexed. 

The  fee  for  graduation  shall  be  five  dollars,  and  for  a  certificate 
with  the  College  Seal  annexed,  two  dollars. 

The  Faculty  have  power  to  confer  Honorary  Degrees  at  their 
discretion. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS 

OF   THE 

COLLEGE  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MARY. 


CHAPTER  I. — Opening  of  Session. 

The  session  shall  open  on  the  second  Wednesday  of  October,  and 
close  on  commencement  day,  the  4th  of  July.  From  commence- 
ment to  the  beginning  of  the  next  session  shall  be  the  vacation. 
The  Faculty  may  suspend  recitation  for  a  few  days  at  Christmas, 
on  the  22d  of  February  and  on  Good  Friday. 

CHAPTER  II. — •Terms  of  Admi«xi<ni. 

1.  Candidates  for  admission  to  William  and   Mary  College  shall, 
within  two  days  after  arriving  at  Williamsburg,  make  themselves 
known  to  the  President  and  pay  their  fees.     The  President  shall 
give  each  one  a  copy  of  the  laws,  and  within  one  week  submit  to 
him  the  following  interrogatory :  Have  you  read  and  understood 
the  laws  of  this  College,  and  do  you  acknowledge  your  obligation 
to  obey  them  ?     Upon  his  replying  in  the  affirmative  he  shall  be 
considered  as  having  fully  matriculated. 

2.  No  one  shall  be  admitted  under  the  age  of  fifteen,  or  of  bad 
moral  character;  nor  shall  a  student  from  another  college  be  allowed 
to  matriculate,  unless  he  can  show  he  is  not,  at  the  time  of  his 
application,  under  censure. 

3.  The  fees  for  the  session  must  be  paid  half  in  advance,  unless 
the  Faculty  grant  indulgence.     No  student  will  be  permitted  to 
attend  any  lecture  until  he  has  complied  with  this  condition. 

4.  Those  who  enter  before  the  22d  of  February  shall  pay  the  full 
fees;  those  entering  at  or  after  this  time  shall  pay  half  fees.     \<> 
candidate  shall  be  admitted  for  a  less  time  than  until  the  end  of  a 
session. 

5.  Each  student  shall  be  permitted  to  attend  such  classes  as  In- 
may  select,  provided,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Faculty,  he  be  competent 
to  pursue  the  studies  of  such  class  with  profit;  and    further,  pro- 
vided he  attend  at  I'-ast  three  department,  unless  tin-  K;imlt\ 
allow  him  to  attend  a  less  number. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS.  175 

6.  After  a  student  has  selected  his  studies  he  shall  not  change 
during  the  session,  without  the  permission  of  the  Faculty. 

7.  Candidates  for  the  ministry,  or  indigent  young  men,  of  good 
moral  character  and  respectable  abilities,  may  be  admitted  without 
the  payment  of  fees. 

8.  Resident  graduates,  of  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  may 
attend  the  classes  in  any  department  without  paying  a  tuition  fee; 
or  may  pursue  their  studies  under  the  instruction  of  any  of  the 
Professors,  on  such  terms  as  may  be  agreed. 

CHAPTER  III. — Faculty. 

1.  The  Corporation,  consisting  of  "the  President  and  Masters  or 
Professors,"  known  as  "the  Faculty,"  have  possession,  under  the 
Charter,  of  all  College  property,  and,  subject  to  the  inspection,  direc- 
tion and  statutes  of  the  Visitors  and  Governors,  the  control  and 
management  of  it,  together  with  the  care,  government,  and  instruc- 
tion of  the  students. 

2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Faculty  faithfully  to  instruct  the 
several  classes  in  the  prescribed  studies ;  to  have  a  care  and  over- 
sight of  the  morals  of  the  students ;   strictly  and  impartially  to 
administer  the  1'aws;  and  to  propose  to  the  Visitors  such  changes  or 
additions  as  they  may  deem  advisable. 

3.  There  shall   be  meetings  of  the  Faculty  once  a  week,  and 
oftener,  if  required  by  the  President  or  two  Professors.     A  record 
shall  be  kept  of  their  proceedings  by  the  Secretary,  which  shall  be 
subject  to  the  inspection  of  the  Visitors.     Nothing  done  by  the 
Faculty  shall  be  valid  unless  so  recorded. 

4.  No  member  of  the  Faculty  shall  have  the  right  to  reveal  their 
proceedings,  or  to  make  known,  directly  or  indirectly,  the  votes  or 
opinions  of  any  one  belonging  to  the  body,  unless  permitted  by  a 
unanimous  vote. 

5.  The  Faculty  have  the  right  to  employ  assistant  instructors  in 
any  of  the  departments,  selecting  such  assistants  from  the  students 
if  they  deem  fit. 

6.  The  Faculty  shall|have  power  to  license  teachers  of  studies  not 
pursued  in  College,  or  of  such  accomplishments  as  may  be  proper 
to  be  taught ;  but  no  student  shall  attend  such  teacher  until  he  is 
so  licensed;  nor  shall  any  student  engage  in  teaching,  during  a 
session,  without  permission. 

7.  No  Professor  shall  engage  in  any  occupation  that  interferes 
with  his  Professorship. 


176  EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS. 

8.  Before  entering  on  the  duties  of  his  office,  each  Professor  shall, 
in  the  presence  of  at  least  two  Visitors,  take  the  following  oath : 
I,  -  — ,  do  hereby  swear  that  I  will,  well  and  truly,  execute  the 

duties  of  my  office  of according  to  the  best  of  my  abilities. 

So  help  me  God. 

9.  The  Faculty  shall  have  power  to  regulate  or  suppress  any 
society  formed  by  students.     None  but  students  shall,  without  per- 
mission, be  present  at  the  meetings  of  any  society  in  College. 

10.  The  President  and  Professors  shall,  at  the  close  of  each  ses- 
sion, report  to  the  Visitors  the  state  of  discipline;  the  number  of 
students  in  their  respective  classes ;  their  general  standing  and  pro- 
gress in  study;  and  also  the  state  of  the  library,  apparatus,  and  all 
other  property  of  the  College. 

11.  The  Faculty  shall  have  power  to  determine  the  times  and 
number  of  recitations,  and  the  study  hours,  and  to  select  text  books, 
subject  to  the  control  of  the  Visitors. 

12.  The  President  shall  exercise  all  the  powers  conferred  on  him 
by  the  charter ;  shall  have  a  general  supervision  of  the  College ;  see 
that  the  laws  are  faithfully  executed,  making  such  suggestions  for 
this  purpose  as  he  may  deem  expedient.     He  shall  preside  at  all 
the  meetings  of  the  Faculty,  and  on  public  academic  days;  shall 
have  the  right  to  vote  on  all  questions  before  the  Faculty,  and  in 
case  of  a  tie  to  give  a  casting  vote.     He  shall  carry  on  the  official 
correspondence  of  the  College  that  does  not  devolve  on  the  Secretary 
or  Librarian;  and  shall  give  private  and  public  admonition  and 
counsel  to  the  students  when  needed. 

13.  In  the  absence  of  the  President  the  Faculty  shall  designate 
one  of  their  body  to  exercise  his  authority. 

14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  member  of  the  Faculty  to  aid 
the  President  in  the  preservation  of  discipline,  and  in  the  enforce- 
ment of  the  College  laws ;  to  suppress  all  disorders  or  disturbances 
created  by  students,  and,  if  necessary,  to  require  them  to  retire  to 
their  rooms. 

15.  The  Secretary  of  the  Faculty  shall  keep  a  "Matriculation 
Book,"  in  which  the  students  shall  enter  their  names  and  ages,  and, 
unless  over  twenty-one,  the  name  and  postoffices  of  their  parents  or 
guardians. 

CHAPTER  IV. — Government  of  »sy //</<///,:. 

• 

1.  The  principal  object  of  these  laws  is  to  promote  the  comfort, 
respectability  and  welfare  of  the  students,  restraining  tin -in  from 
vice,  and  inciting  them  to  industry,  by  appeals  to  their  reason  and 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS.  177 

sense  of  right  and  wrong,  and  by  such  censures  as  will  not  dissolve 
their  connection  with  the  College.  But  where  the  laws  are  wilfully 
broken,  the  peace  of  the  better  disposed  students  disturbed,  and  a 
pernicious  example  set  them,  it  will  be  necessary  to  send  the 
offender  away. 

2.  A  candid  confession  of  a  fault  and  a  promise  of  amendment 
may,  in  most  cases,  mitigate  the  punishment  or  entirely  prevent  it. 

3.  The  punishments  shall  be  private  admonition ;  public  admoni- 
tion; probation;  suspension;  dismission, and  expulsion. 

4.  A  student  may  be  privately  admonished  by  any  member  of  the 
Faculty,  at  his  discretion,  without  its  being  recorded. 

5.  A  suspended  or  dismissed  student  shall,  under  pain  of  ex- 
pulsion, within  twenty-four  hours  after  his  sentence  is  made  known, 
leave  the  College  premises,  and  within  two  days  he  shall  leave 
Williamsburg,  unless  permitted  by  the  Faculty  to  remain. 

6.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  Faculty  to  question  any  student  as 
to  his  participation  in  any  offence  against  the  College  laws. 

7.  Where  several  students  are  engaged  in  breaking  the  College 
laws,  in  combination  or  otherwise,  the  Faculty  may  confine  their 
censures  and  punishments  to  those  who  appear  to  be  the  ringleaders, 
or  to  those  whose  deportment  is  most  reprehensible. 

8.  If  the  Faculty  think  that  a  student  is  habitually  negligent  in 
his  studies,  or  that  he  is  addicted  to  any  vice  or  immorality,  or  that 
his  example  is  pernicious  to  his  fellow-students,  they  may,  although 
without  positive  evidence,  advise  his  parent  or  guardian  to  with- 
draw him  without  delay.     Should  this  be  declined,  the}7  may  dis- 
miss him  quietly  without  disgrace,  restoring  to  him  a  proper  pro- 
portion of  the  fees  he  has  advanced. 

9.  A  student  sending  or  accepting  a  challenge  to  fight  a  duel,  or 
in  any  manner  engaged  therein  as  principal,  shall  be  expelled. 

10.  A  student  conveying  a  challenge  to  fight  a  duel,  or  being 
second  therein,  or  in  the  duel  that  may  be  the  consequence,  shall 
be  expelled. 

11.  No  student  shall  keep  in  his  possession  deadly  weapons,  nor 
resort  to  them  in  a  fray. 

12.  No  student  shall,  without  permission,  keep  in  his  room  fire- 
arms, nor  shoot  them,  nor  make  loud  noises  of  any  kind  within  the 
College  enclosures,  or  in  the  streets  of  Williamsburg. 

13.  No  student  shall,  by  words  or  blows,  insult  a  fellow-student, 
nor  a  citizen. 

14.  No  student  shall  game,  become  intoxicated,  keep  or  have 
.intoxicating  drinks  in  his  room,  or  possession  ;  injure  the  property 


178  EXTKACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS. 

of  the  College,  or  of  citizens;  nor  be  guilty  of  any  conduct  rendering 
him  an  unfit  associate  for  young  gentlemen  of  correct  habits.  Those 
who  commit  any  of  these  offences  shall  be  punished  at  the  discre- 
tion of  the  Faculty. 

15.  If  students  treat  with  disrespect  Visitors,  or  members  of  the 
Faculty,  or  combine  to  interfere  with  their  authority,  they  shall  be 
dismissed,  or  otherwise  punished. 

16.  No  student  shall,  without  permission,  visit  any  tavern  or 
tippling  house,  nor  be  guilty  of  profanity. 

17.  Students  shall  not,  without  the  consent  of  the  Faculty,  form, 
or  join  in,  any  public  procession ;  nor  take  part  in  any  public  ex- 
hibition ;  nor  deliver  any  speech  in  public  until  it  has  been  revised 
and  approved  by  the  President. 

18.  Students  shall  not  give  parties,  unless  by  the  consent  of  the 
Faculty. 

19.  Students  shall  not  unnecessarily  absent  themselves  from  their 
rooms  during  study  hours,  nor  after  bed-time ;  nor  shall  they  play 
at  such  times  on  musical  instruments,  or  make  any  noises  whereby 
the  attention  of  their  fellow-students  may  be  distracted  or  their 
repose  disturbed. 

20.  Students  shall  not,  without  good  excuse,  absent  themselves 
from  prayers ;  nor  from  recitations,  unless  excused  by  the  instruc- 
tor of  the  class ;  nor  leave  the  room ;  nor  while  at  recitation  read 
any  book  or  paper,  without  permission ;  nor  lie  down  on  the  benches ; 
but  shall  demean  themselves  with  propriety,  and  pay  proper  atten- 
tion.    If  negligent,  disorderly,  or  disrespectful,  they  may  be  re- 
quired to  leave  the  room. 

21.  If  a  student  write  for  publication,  or  be  instrumental  in 
causing  to  be  published,  statements  or  pieces  reflecting  on  the 
Visitors,  Faculty,  or  any  of  his  fellow-students,  he  shall  be  dis- 
missed, or  otherwise  punished. 

22.  No  student  shall,  without  permission,  go  more  than  five  miles 
from  Williamsburg. 

23.  The  Faculty  shall  have  power  to  forbid   and   punish  any 
offences  against  good  order  or  propriety  not  herein  enumerated. 

CHAPTER  V. — Prayers  and  Church. 

\ .  There  shall  be  daily  prayers  in  the  Chapel. 

2.  All  students  are  expected  to  attend  church  on  Sunday  morning. 
They  may  indulge  their  religious  preferences  by  choosing  between 
the  churches  of  the  different  religious  denominations  in  \\  illi;uns- 
which  preference  shall  be  made  known  at  the  time  of  matric- 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS.  179 

ulation.     Nothing  disorderly  or  irreverent  shall  be  tolerated  during 
chapel  exercises  or  church. 

3.  On  Sundays  students  shall  abstain  from  ordinary  diversions, 
and  shall  conduct  themselves  in  a  manner  becoming  the  day. 

4.  A  course  of  Biblical  study,  and  on  the  evidences  of  Natural 
and  Revealed  Religion,  may  be  conducted  by  the  President  or  one 
of  the  Professors. 

CHAPTER  VI. — Merit  Rolls  and  Examinations. 

1.  The  Professors  shall  keep  rolls  of  their  classes,  and  regularly 
designate,  by  one  common  system  of  marks,  the  value  of  the  re- 
citation of  each  student.    These  marks,  together  with  those  given 
at  the  examinations,  shall  determine  the  scholarship  of  the  students. 

2.  A  weekly  report  shall  be  made  to  the  Faculty  by  the  Professors 
of  all  absences,  irregularities  and  violations  of  the  College  laws  of 
which  they  have  any  knowledge. 

3.  Reports  shall  be  made  to  the  parents  or  guardians  of  students, 
every  month,  of  their  scholarship  and  of  all   delinquencies  and 
absences,  whether  excused  or  not. 

4.  No  Professor  shall,  without  the  knowledge  and  consent  of  the 
Faculty,  give  to  any  student  a  certificate  or  recommendation. 

5.  There  shall  be  two  public  examinations  of  all  the  classes, 
beginning,  the  first  on  or  about  the  23d  of  February,. and  the  second 
immediately  before  commencement. 

6.  Each  class  shall  be  examined,  in  the  following  manner,  by  a 
committee  of  the  Faculty,  consisting  of  two  Professors,  to  one  of 
whom  the  class  recites.     A  list  of  questions  shall  be  prepared  by 
the  instructor  of  the  class,  to  each  of  which  he  shall  attach  a 
numerical  value — such  that  the  sum  of  all  the  values  shall  equal 
the  number  denoting  the  highest  grade  of  scholarship.     After  the 
examination,  which  may  be  either  oral  or  written,  he  shall  assign 
values  to  the  answers.     The  sum  of  the  values  of  the  answers  given 
by  any  student  shall  be  the  number  obtained  by  him  at  the  exami- 
nation. 

7.  In  the  determination  of  the  scholarship  the  examination  shall 
be  considered  equivalent  to  one-third  the  value  of  the  whole  num- 
ber of  recitations. 

8.  No  student  shall  be  entitled  to  a  certificate  of  proficiency  in  a 
class,  unless  the  number  denoting  his  scholarship  be  at  least  seventy, 
and  the  number  obtained  at  the  examination  be  at  least  seventy. 

9.  In  no  case  shall  a  student  be  entitled  to  a  certificate  of  pro- 
ficiency until  he  has  presented  himself  for  examination. 


180  EXTRACTS  FEOM  THE  LAWS. 

CHAPTER  VII. — College  Buildings. 

1.  The  Faculty  may,  when  necessary,  appoint  one  of  their  num- 
ber to  direct,  in  conjunction  with  the  President,  the  repairs  of  the 
College  buildings  and  enclosures,  and  to  take  care  of  all  the  College 
property  that  is  not  in  the  possession  of  some  one  properly  autho- 
rized. 

2.  Damages  to  any  College  property  done  by  students  shall  be 
charged  to  them  generally,  if  the  authors  are  not  known.     Damages 
to  a  room  in  the  College  Hotel  shall  be  repaired  at  the  expense  of 
the  occupants.    Intentional  damages  shall  be  charged  twice  the 
cost  of  repairing  them. 

CHAPTER  VIII. — Library. 

1.  The  Faculty  shall  annually  appoint  a  Librarian,  with  a  reason- 
able salary,  payable  out  of  the  Library  Fund. 

2.  The  Library  shall  be  kept  open  once  a  week  for  two  hours  at 
such  time  as  the  Librarian  may  prefer. 

3.  None  but  Visitors  of  the  College  shall  be  allowed  to  enter  the 
Library  without  the  presence  of  the  Librarian  or  a  member  of  the 
Faculty. 

4.  The  right  to  borrow  books  from  the  Library  shall  be  confined 
to  Visitors,  members  of  the  Faculty  and  students.     The  privilege  of 
borrowing  books  may  be  extended  to  others. 

5.  Books  borrowed  shall  be  recorded  by  the  Librarian,  together 
with  the  names  of  the  borrowers,  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose. 
The  Librarian  shall,  in  his  annual  report,  state  what  injuries  have 
been  done  to  books  belonging  to  the  Library,  the  amount  of  fines 
imposed  and  collected,  and  what  books  have  been  lost  or  destroyed. 
He  shall  also  present  a  list  of  any  that  have  been  added  to  the 
Library  since  his  last  report,  by  gift  or  purchase. 

6.  Students  shall  not  be  permitted  to  borrow  from  the  Library 
more  than  two  volumes  at  a  time.     Books  of  reference,  and  others, 
designated  by  the  Faculty,  shall  not  be  taken  from  the  room. 

7.  No  books  shall  be  kept  out  of  the  Library  by  a  student  for  a 
longer  time  than  two  weeks,  under  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  cents 
for  each  additional  week.     If  books  are  defaced  or  injured  out  of 
the  Library,  the  borrower  shall  pay  a  fine,  or  buy  a  new  set,  at  the 
option  of  the  Librarian;  in  which  case  the  injured  set  shall  be  the 
property  of  the  borrower.     The  Librarian  shall  be  the  judge  of  the 
amount  of  all  fines. 

8.  Students  shall  not  go  beyond  the  counter  of  the  Librarian 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS.  181 

without  his  permission ;  nor  shall  any  one,  without  such  permission, 
except  members  of  che  Board  of  Visitors  or  Faculty,  take  a  book 
from  the  shelf.  Books  may  be  handed  from  the  shelf,  and  returned 
to  it  by  the  Librarian. 

9.  Borrowers  of  books  from  the  Library  shall  not  loan  them  to 
others. 

10.  Books  shall  not  be  kept  out  of  the  Library  for  more  than  four 
weeks  by  any  but  Visitors  or  members  of  the  Faculty.    All  books 
shall  be  returned  at  least  twelve  days  before  commencement.    Those 
who  violate  either  of  these  provisions  shall  be  fined. 

11.  Persons  in  the  Library  shall  abstain  from  all  loud  talking, 
noise,  and  from  smoking. 

12.  Books  shall  not  be  taken  from  the  Library  by  any  who  owe 
fines.     If  students  refuse  to  pay  these  fines  they  may  be  dismissed 
or  otherwise  punished.  . 

13.  No  one  shall  be  allowed,  under  any  pretence,  to  carry  a  book 
away  from  Williamsburg. 

14.  The  matriculation  fees  and  fines  collected  by  the  Librarian 
shall  constitute  the  Library  Fund. 

CHAPTER  IX. — Boarding  and  Steward. 

1.  Students  who  do  not  live  at  the  College  Hotel  may  board  or 
take  their  meals,  by  permission  of  the  Faculty,  with  private  families 
in  Williamsburg,  or  form  messes. 

2.  Students  shall  not  be  allowed  to  board  at  a  tavern. 

3.  The  Faculty  may  annually  elect  a  Steward.     He  may  reside  in 
the  College  Hotel,  unless  some  other  building  be  designated  by  the 
Faculty,  and  have  the  use  of  it,  the  yard  and  garden,  free  of  rent. 
His  charges  for  board,  washing,  and  hire  of  room  furniture,  shall 
be  such  as  the  Faculty  may,  from  time  to  time,  prescribe.     He  may 
be  required  to  purchase  fuel  for  the  students,  and  have  it  delivered 
to  them,  for  which  he  shall  be  allowed  a  reasonable  per  centage. 
He  shall  preserve  order  and  decorum  among  his  boarders.     The 
Faculty  shall  have  power,  for  reasons  satisfactory  to  them,  to  dis- 
charge the  Steward. 

4.  The  Steward  shall  furnish  such  students  as  live,  in  the  College 
Hotel  with  plain  and  comfortable  fare.     He  shall  have  their  rooms 
cleaned  up ;  their  fires  made ;  and  fresh  water  carried  to  them  once 
a  day.     They  have  no  right  to  call  on  the  Steward's  servants  for 
any  other  service. 

5.  The  Steward  shall  be  paid  in  advance  for  board,  one-half  at 
the  beginning  of  the  session,  and  one-half  on  the  22d  of  February. 


182  EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS. 

6.  If  a  student  leave  College  from  any  cause,  during  the  session, 
he  shall  be  charged  for  board  up  to  the  time  of  his  leaving  only ; 
and  any  excess  which  he  may  have  advanced  shall  be  refunded  to 
him. 

7.  The  Steward  shall  not  supply  students  with  any  spirituous  or 
intoxicating  drink ;  nor  shall  he  in  any  manner  encourage  them  in 
the  violation  of  the  College  laws.     He  shall  keep  no  other  boarders, 
without  permission,  during  the  session,  than  academic  students  or 
members  of  the  Faculty ;  nor  shall  he  furnish  a  suspended  or  dis- 
missed student  with  meals  for  more  than  twenty-four  hours  after 
the  publication  of  his  sentence. 

CHAPTER  X. — College  Funds  and  Bursar. 

1.  The   Faculty   shall,  on   the   day   preceding  commencement, 
present  to  the  Visitors  an  accurate  account  of  all  moneys  received 
for  profits  on  stock  and  interest  of  money,  rents,  or  from  any  other 
source,  keeping  the  income  separate  from  the  principal ;  and  also  a 
detailed  statement  of  all  payments  made  by  the  College.     They 
shall,  at  the  same  time,  present  a  separate  statement  of  the  pro- 
ductive and  reproductive  funds,  or  of  any  sum  loaned  on  which 
interest  has  not  been  paid  regularly,  half-yearly ;   and  also  any 
change  in  the  investment  of  money,  and   the  reasons  therefor; 
which  accounts  and  statements,  if  approved  by  the  Visitors,  shall 
be  recorded  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose. 

2.  The  salaries  of  the  Professors  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  income 
of  the  year  in  which  they  fall  due,  or  out  of  the  arrears  of  income 
of  preceding  years,  after  deducting  the  cost  of  necessary  repairs  and 
expenses  of  the  College,  and  not  out  of  the  income  of  succeeding 
years. 

3.  The  Faculty  is  enjoined  to  use  none  of  the  capital  stock. 

4.  The  Faculty  appoint  the  Bursar,  or  financial   agent  of  the 
College,  determine  his  compensation,  and  require  sufficient  security. 

CHAPTER  XI. — Servants. 

1.  The  Faculty  shall  hire  as  many  servants  as  may  be  necessary. 

2.  No  servants,  but  those  authorized  by  the  Faculty,  shall  be 
allowed  to  enter  the  College  yard  or  building. 

CHAPTER  XII. — Miscellaneous. 

1.  The  Faculty  shall  have  power  to  require  payment  from  the 
students,  at  any  time  during  the  session,  for  wilful  damages  to  the 
College  buildings  or  grounds. 


EXTKACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS.  183 

2.  If  a  student  be  dismissed  before  the  22d  of  February,  or  leave 
of  his  own  accord,  one-half  the  fees  he  has  advanced  shall  be  re- 
funded to  him.     If  after  the  22d  of  February,  none. 

3.  It  is  earnestly  recommended  to  the  parents  or  guardians  of  the 
younger  students  especially,  to  put  the  money  intended  to  defray 
their  expenses  at  College  in  the  hands  of  a  member  of  the  Faculty, 
or  of  some  citizen  of  Williamsburg. 

4.  All  laws  made  by  the  Faculty,  not  in  conflict  with  these,  shall 
have  their  force  and  authority.     The  Faculty  shall  have  power  to 
delay  enforcing  any  law  herein  contained  until  they  have  consulted 
the  Visitors  in  relation  to  its  amendment  or  repeal. 


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This  successful  VIRGINIA  COMPANY  has  established  Agencies  in  every 
section  of  the  country,  North,  South  and  West,  and  is  the  only  SOUTHERN 
LIFE  COMPANY  that  has  complied  with  the  Insurance  Laws  of  New  York, 
Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  &c.,  and  secured  business  in  those  States. 


AISTNUAL  ESTCOME  OVER  ONE  AND  A  QUARTER 
MILLION  DOLLARS. 


20,738  Policies  Issued  to  September  24th,  1873, 


OVER  $1,250,000  PAID  IN  DEATH  LOSSES. 


All  Desirable  Forms  of  Life  and 

Endowment  Policies  Issued. 
Policies  Liberal  and  Non-Forfeitable. 

All  Claims  Promptly  Paid. 
Surplus  (Dividends)  Returned  to  Policy-Holders 

On  the  Contribution  Plan. 


No  Company  in  America  has  been  more  successful,  and  no  Company  can 
present  superior  advantages  to  those  who  desire  A  LIFE  POLICY. 


W.  C.  CARRINGTON,  President. 
REV.  J.  E.  EDWARDS,  D.  D.  Vice-Pres't. 
D.  J.  HARTSOOK,  Secretary. 
J.  J.  HOPKINS,  Assistant  Sec 


ERRATA. 

Page  84,  line  10  from  top,  after  name  of  Benj.  Harrison,  instead  of  "  Son  of 
Benj.  Harrison,  Signer,  &c.,"  read  son  of  Benj.  Harrison.  Signer  of  declara- 
tion of  Independence,  member  of  U.  S.  Constitutional  Convention,  and  mem- 
ber of  Congress. 

Page  125,  in  list  of  1835-6,  and  on  page  127,  in  list  of  1836-7,  instead  of  W. 
H.  I.  Anson,  read  W.  H.  I'Anson. 

Page  136,  bottom  line,  instead  of  Lunanic,  read  Lunatic. 

Page  145,  for  W.  H.  Shield,  read  W.  H.  Sheild. 

Page  148,  list  of  1855^56,  after  name  of  James  H.  Barnes,  for  C.  S.  A.  read 
Episcopal  clergyman. 

Page  149,  after  name  of  T.  P.  McCandlish,  A.  M.,  add  A.  B.  Prof.  Latin, 
College  of  William  and  Mary. 

Page  168,  bottom  line,  for  Rev.  J.  M.  T.  Otts,  read  Kev.  J.  M.  P.  Otts. 

Page  170,  Dep't  of  Latin,  for  Arnold's  Prose  Composition,  read  Gilder- 
sleeve's  Exercises. 

Page  171,  Dep't  of  French,  for  Fasquelle's  French  Course,  read  Otto's  French 
Grammar  and  Reader. 


ADDENDA. 

Add  to  the  Honorary  Degree  list,  on  page  168,  the  names  of  the  following 
persons — on  whom  degrees  were  conferred  after  this  work  went  to  press — viz: 

Rev.  Philip  Slaughter Virginia D.  D July  4th,  1874 

Rev.  J.  W.  Claxton ...Pennsylvania D.  D "          i* 

Rev.  D.  F.  Sprigg Virginia D.  D " 

Prof.  Alex.  Hogg Agricultural  &  Mechan- 
ical College  of  Ala. ..A.  M "          " 

E.  Morrissett Virginia A.  M 

W.  Frank  Mitchell Maryland L.   B " 

B^T'The  note  on  page  117  shows  that  from  1786  to  1823  the  average  number 
of  students  at  the  College  was  about  45.  Since  that  time  the  average  has  in- 
creased a  great  deal ;  but  the  lists  for  the  different  sessions,  as  contained  in 
this  catalogue,  would  make  it  appear  to  be  less — as  the  plan  has  been  adopted, 
to  save  space,  of  only  inserting  the  name  of  each  student  once,  and  not  repeat- 
ing for  each  session  he  attended.  i 

Hence  the  lists  for  the  most  part  only  show  the  number  of  new  matriculates 
for  each  year.  The  name  of  each  student  (with  few  exceptions)  is  inserted  the 
year  he  entered  College — or,  in  case  he  took  a  degree,  in  the  list  of  the  year 
he  graduated. 

&$r  The  attention  of  the  Alumni,  and  all  interested  in  the  College,  is  called 
to  the  note  at  the  head  of  the  catalogue,  on  page  74 ;  also  to  the  note  at  the 
foot  of  page  155.  The  Faculty,  assisted  by  many  of  the  Alumni,  have  labored 
very  hard  to  make  this  catalouge  as  near  perfect  as  possible.  Should  errors, 
and  there  are  yet  we  fear  very  many,  be  detected  and  a  correction  of  them 
sent  to  the  secretary  of  the  Faculty,  they  will  be  properly  preserved  and  the 
corrections  made  in  the  next  edition,  whenever  published. 

Parties  will  please  make  no  changes  that  they  do  not  personally  know  to  be 
correct. 


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